Salvin's Albatross also has a grey head but has much broader wings, a pale bill and even narrower black borders to the underwing.
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The Bounty group has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because of its significance as a breeding site for Erect-crested Penguins, Salvin's Albatrosses and Bounty Shags.
The Chatham Albatross, with the White-capped, Shy and Salvin's Albatrosses, were all considered the same species until a 1998 book by Robertson and Nunn.
The “Wanderer” group of albatrosses has been split into several taxa including, as well as the Wandering Albatross, the Antipodean, Gibson's, Tristan and Amsterdam Albatrosses, not all all of which are recognised by all authorities.
It is a breeding site for a small colony, only discovered in 1983, of about 20 pairs of Northern Buller's Albatrosses (Thalassarche bulleri platei), the only known breeding site for the subspecies away from the Chatham Islands.
Thorpe Salvin contains the ruins of Thorpe Hall, a manor house designed and built by Robert Smythson in 1570.
The White-capped Albatross is part of a greater complex of Albatrosses consisting of the Shy Albatross, Thasassarche cauta, Salvin's Albatross, Thalassarche salvini, Chatham Albatross, Thalassarche eremita.