Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) close-up of eyes, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, January

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) head portrait of chick, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, March

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) head portrait calling mate, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, March

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) head portrait calling mate, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, March

Claudio Contreras / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) flying, silhouetted against the sky, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, April

Michael Pitts / Laysan albatross display (Phoebastria immutabilis) Midway Atoll Pacific

Michael Pitts / Laysan albatross display (Phoebastria immutabilis) Sand Is Midway Atoll Pacific

Michael Pitts / Laysan albatross feeding chick {Diomedea immutabalis} Midway Atoll, Pacific Ocean

Michael Pitts / Laysan albatross (Phebastria immutabilis) fledgling testing wings in a storm, Midway Island. Central Pacific.

Doug Perrine / Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) pair sky-pointing during courtship at sunset, Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Midway National Wildlife Refuge, Papahanaumokuakea National Monument, Northwest Hawa...

Doug Perrine / Carcass of Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) chick showing gut full of man-made plastic and foam items. It probably starved after eating regurgitated plastic from its parents,which blocked...

Jaymi Heimbuch / Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) chick at nest with bones and plastic, Midway Atoll, Hawaiian Leeward Islands, Hawaii