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South Georgia Diving Petrel
Pelecanoides georgicusMurphy & Harper, 1916
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pelecanoides
- Commonness
- Restricted
- Best seen
- Summer
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The South Georgia diving petrel or Georgian diving-petrel is one of five very similar small auk-like diving petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to the South Atlantic and islands of the southern Indian Ocean and south-eastern Australia.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Islands of subantarctic Atlantic, Indian and south-west Pacific oceans from South Georgia to Heard (south-central South Indian Ocean) and Codfish I. (=Whenua Hou, north-west of Stewart I., New Zealand)
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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