BirdUp · Species
White-chinned Petrel
Procellaria aequinoctialisLinnaeus, 1758
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Procellaria
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The white-chinned petrel also known as the Cape hen and shoemaker, is a large shearwater in the family Procellariidae. It ranges around the Southern Ocean as far north as southern Australia, Peru and Namibia, and breeds colonially on scattered islands. The white-chinned petrel was formerly considered to be conspecific with the spectacled petrel.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Islets of south temperate and subantarctic oceans north of Antarctic Convergence from Falkland Is. to south outlying islands of New Zealand
- Non-breeding range
- To South American coasts north to Peru and south Brazil and south to Antarctic Pen., south Africa, south Australia and New Zealand region
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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