White-headed Petrel

White-headed Petrel

Taxobox
name = White-headed Petrel
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Procellariiformes
familia = Procellariidae
genus = "Pterodroma"
species = "P. lessonii"
binomial = "Pterodroma lessonii"
binomial_authority = (Garnot, 1826)

The White-headed Petrel is a species of Procellariidae.Length:400mm.

White-headed Petrels breed alone or in colonies inburrows dug among tussocks and herbfields onsubantarctic islands. They appear to feed pelagically oncephalopods and crustaceans (Marchant and Higgins,1990).


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