White-headed Petrel
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| Pterodroma lessonii (Garnot, 1826) |
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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