White-capped albatross

The white-capped albatross (Thalassarche cauta steadi) is a mollymawk that breeds on the islands off of New Zealand. Not all experts agree that this form should be recognized as a separate species from the shy albatross, Thalassarche cauta. It is a medium-sized black, slate gray, and white albatross and is the largest of the mollymawks.

This article is about the subspecies of albatross that breeds in the Auckland and Antipodes islands. For the species that breeds in the Indian Ocean, see shy albatross.

White-capped albatross
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Diomedeidae
Genus: Thalassarche
Species:
T. cauta
Subspecies:
T. c. steadi
Trinomial name
Thalassarche cauta steadi
(Falla, 1933)
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