BirdUp · Species
Antarctic Prion
Pachyptila desolata(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pachyptila
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The Antarctic prion also known as the dove prion, or totorore in Māori, is the largest of the prions, a genus of small petrels of the Southern Ocean.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- SO, AN : islets of subantarctic to Antarctic oceans (mainly south of Antarctic Convergence) from Antarctic Pen. to Scott I. (north of Ross Sea) Macquarie (far south-east of Australia) and Auckland is. (south of South I., New Zealand)
- Non-breeding range
- From pack-ice to waters off south South America, Africa and Australasia
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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