Kauaʻi record · kba_bird_black_footed_albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Phoebastria nigripes
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About Black-footed Albatross
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) is recorded as a migrant or nonbreeding visitor on Kauaʻi in the Bishop Museum's 2017 island checklist. This is a documented island occurrence, not a claim of an individual sighting in 2026.
Kauaʻi evidence
Bishop Museum island checklist (version 2, 2017) lists Kauaʻi status M: migrant or nonbreeding visitor. See original island table. The record includes Kauaʻi-specific or clearly defined regional evidence appropriate to its stated occurrence status.
Occurrence evidence
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Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Phoebastria nigripes
- Common names
- Black-footed Albatross
- Family
- Diomedeidae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Kauaʻi documented: migrant or nonbreeding visitor (2017 island checklist)
- Origin
- Indigenous
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-09-13
- Evidence limits
- Island occurrence supported by the 2017 checklist; abundance and current year presence are not established here
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Marine Seabird
- Food and resource needs
- Areas-seizes prey while sitting on the water, using olfaction
- Reproduction
- Suitable nesting or roosting sites, seasonal food, and protection from disturbance and predators.
- Shelter
- Shelter and structure within marine seabird.
Threats and conservation
- Threats
- Fishery bycatch, invasive plants at nesting islands, plastic ingestion, contaminants, oil spills, sea-level rise, and storm/wave exposure at low colonies
- Conservation actions
- Maintain Lehua/offshore-islet biosecurity, keep rat-free status, reduce bycatch and plastic exposure, and assess low-island climate vulnerability
- Monitoring
- Track occurrence, abundance, habitat condition, breeding or seasonal use, and significant threats.
- Data gaps
- Update island status with dated contemporary records · Specific Kauaʻi habitat and abundance need local evidence
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Breeding Season Open Ocean Nonbreeding
- Seasonal description
- Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) is recorded as a migrant or nonbreeding visitor on Kauaʻi in the Bishop Museum's 2017 island checklist. This is a documented island occurrence, not a claim of an individual sighting in 2026.