"Makana" the Laysan Albatross
Makana is a Laysan albatross from the Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Midway. She came to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 2006, after she injured her wing and was unable to survive in the wild. Makana appears daily in a presentation that helps visitors learn about the threats that albatrosses and other seabirds face from plastics pollution.
Around the world, up to one million seabirds die each year from eating plastic or becoming entangled in plastics and other marine debris. The Laysan albatross is particularly vulnerable.