Endemic to New Zealand, Salvin's albatross (Thalassarche salvini) was named in 1893 by the British zoologist Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild to honour Osbert Salvin (1835–1898). Salvin was a highly prominent English ornithologist, herpetologist, and collector. A member of the "mollymawk" group, which is the collective term for the smaller species of albatross, it has a silver-grey crown and distinct grey-green bill with a bright yellow tip, and is a spectacular glider that spends most of its life soaring over the open ocean. Almost the entire global population (about 99%) breeds on the remote, wave-pounded Bounty Islands in New Zealand. Smaller colonies are also found on the Snares Islands.
See also: Albatross, Laysan albatross, Wandering albatross, White-capped albatross.
See also: Albatross, Laysan albatross, Wandering albatross, White-capped albatross.
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