Blue Petrel

Blue Petrel

Taxobox
name = Blue Petrel



image_caption = Holding a blue petrel during a ringing campaign.
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Procellariiformes
familia = Procellariidae
genus = "Halobaena"
genus_authority = Bonaparte, 1856
species = "H. caerulea"
binomial = "Halobaena caerulea"
binomial_authority = (Gmelin, 1789)
The Blue Petrel ("Halobaena caerulea") is a small seabird in the family "Procellariidae". This small petrel is the only member of the genus "Halobaena" but is closely allied to the prions. Its plumage, which is white on the underside of the body and grey with the distinct M banding across the uppersides resembles the prions; it differs from them by its smaller bill and the distinctive white tip to its tail. They have a circumpolar distribution, breeding near the Antarctic Polar Front.

Like all procellariids the Blue Petrels are colonial, nesting in large colonies which are visited at night to avoid being taken by skuas. Blue petrels lay a single egg in a nest inside a burrow. Both parents incubate the egg for around 50 days. After hatching the chick takes around 55 days to fledge. Their colonies can be found on Marion Island and Prince Edward Island-(of the Prince Edward Islands), the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen archipelago, Macquarie Island and South Georgia. At sea they range widely from Australia to South Africa, South America and Antarctica. They feed mostly on euphausiid shrimp, also taking other crustaceans and fish and squid, which they can dive for to at least 6 metres.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* Brooke, M. (2004). "Albatrosses And Petrels Across The World": Procellariidae. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK ISBN 0-19-850125-0

External links

* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/1103800.htm Stamps] (for French Southern and Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=150 Blue Petrel videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=blue+petrel&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Blue Petrel photo gallery] VIREO


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