Australasian Birds

Procellariidae : Petrels & Shearwaters

Cape Petrel

Daption capense

Kaikoura, New Zealand - November 2005

The Cape Petrel is abundant throughout the southern oceans. The New Zealand subspecies, australe, is smaller and had less white on the upperparts than the nominate race.

Kaikoura, New Zealand - November 2005

Kaikoura, New Zealand - November 2005