We can ID this albatross as a Salvin's Albatross by its silver-grey crown; grey face, upper throat and upper mantle; grey-black back, upperwing, and tail; white rump and underparts with a black thumbmark on the underwing and an underwing that is white with narrow black leading and trailing edges and black wings tips. The bill has a pale yellow upper ridge, a yellow tip on the upper mandible and a dark spot on the tip of the lower mandible.
Salvin's Albatross is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 762.
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