Hauraki Gulf New Zealand Pelagic Tours Birdwatching Gallery - unique New Zealand seabirds
INDEX
Cape Petrel
(Daption capense australe)
Photo - Hadoram Shirihai
Breeding areas
Antarctic mainland and many antarctic and subantarctic islands. Macquarie, Heard and Peter I Is; Palmer Archipelago; S.Shetland, S.Orkney, S.Sandwich and Balleny Is; Crozet and Kerguelen Is; Bouvetoya I; S.Georgia
Breeding season
August to March
Dispersal/migration
Ranges around Southern seas as far north as the Tropic of Capricorn. Regularly beach-wrecked. |