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White-headed Petrel (Pterodroma lessonii) - Wiki
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White-headed Petrel (Pterodroma lessonii) - Wiki


White-headed Petrel
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Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae

[Photo] White-headed Petrel (Pterodroma lessonii). Source: John Gould, Birds of Australia, 1840-48. URL: www.nzbirds.com/birds/petrelwhitehead.html

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

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

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