GALLERIES > BIRDS > PROCELLARIIFORMES > PROCELLARIIDAE > WHITE-CHINNED PETREL [Procellaria aequinoctialis] [plot on map]
Location: Kaikoura (Pelagic), South New ZealandGPS: -42.5S, 173.7E, depth=-701' MAP Date: April 23, 2017 ID : B13K4244 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Kaikoura (Pelagic), South New ZealandGPS: -42.5S, 173.7E, depth=-701' MAP Date: April 23, 2017 ID : B13K4241 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Kaikoura (Pelagic), South New ZealandGPS: -42.5S, 173.7E, depth=-701' MAP Date: April 23, 2017 ID : B13K4248 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Kaikoura (Pelagic), South New ZealandGPS: -42.5S, 173.7E, depth=-701' MAP Date: April 23, 2017 ID : B13K4268 [4896 x 3264]
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Location: Fortuna Bay, South GeorgiaGPS: -54.1S, -36.8W, elev=0' MAP Date: January 14, 2010 ID : 7C2V0135 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: South Atlantic OceanGPS: -54.0S, -63.9W, depth=-471' MAP Date: January 7, 2010 ID : 7C2V7245 [3888 x 2592]
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Location: South Atlantic OceanGPS: -54.0S, -63.9W, depth=-471' MAP Date: January 7, 2010 ID : 7C2V7163 [3888 x 2592]
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SPECIES INFO
The White-chinned Petrel is large shearwater in the family Procellariidae. It ranges around the Southern Ocean as far north as South Australia, Peru and Namibia, and breeds colonially on scattered islands; South Georgia, Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Auckland Island, Campbell Island and Antipodes Islands. Their diet is composed mainly of krill (42%) followed by fish. White-chinned Petrels feed by surface seizing and by undertaking shallow dives, and they will readily follow ships to collect fisheries discards, making them vulnerable to long line fisheries.
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