White-chinned Petrel

White-chinned Petrel

Taxobox
name = White-chinned Petrel
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_size = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Procellariiformes
familia = Procellariidae
genus = "Procellaria"
species = "P. aequinoctialis"
binomial = "Procellaria aequinoctialis"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1758The 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. [Berrow, S., Croxall, J. (1999) " The diet of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis, Linnaeus 1758, in years of contrasting prey availability at South Georgia" "Antarctic Science" 11: 283-292] White-chinned Petrels feed by surface seizing and by undertaking shallow dives [N. Huin (1994) "Diving Depths of White-Chinned Petrels" "Condor" . 96(4) 1111-1113] , and they will readily follow ships to collect fisheries discards, [ Cherel, Y; Weimerskirch, H; Duhamel, G (1996) "Interactions between longline vessels and seabirds in Kerguelen waters and a method to reduce seabird mortality" "Biological Conservation" 75(1): 63-70 ] making them vulnerable to long line fisheries.

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External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3922&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]


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