BirdUp · Species
Broad-billed Prion
Pachyptila vittata(Forster, G, 1777)
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pachyptila
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The broad-billed prion is a small pelagic seabird in the shearwater and petrel family, Procellariidae. It is the largest prion, with grey upperparts plumage, and white underparts. The sexes are alike. It ranges from the southeast Atlantic to New Zealand mainly near the Antarctic Convergence. In the south Atlantic it breeds on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island; in the south Pacific it breeds on islands off the south coast of South Island, New Zealand and on the Chatham Islands. It has many other names that have been used such as blue-billed dove-petrel, broad-billed dove-petrel, long-billed prion, common prion, icebird, and whalebird.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Islets off South I. and outlying is. groups of New Zealand, and Nightingale, Inaccessible, and Gough (Tristan da Cunha group, south-central Atlantic Ocean)
- Non-breeding range
- To south African, tropical Indian Ocean and south Australasian waters
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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