WILSON'S STORM-PETREL

Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024

(*280)            WILSON'S STORM-PETREL           Oceanites oceanicus

NEW ZEALAND                  132

Breeds subantarctic and Antartica, including several colonies in the Ross Sea sector. Migrates to Northern Hemisphere but occasionally seen in New Zealand waters mainly November to December and May to March. Breeding is December to April.

WILSON'S STORM-PETREL

280            WILSON'S STORM-PETREL           Oceanites oceanicus

Australia       (250)

15-19 cm, span 38-42 cm. One of the world's most abundant and widespread birds. Migratory. Found off the coast except in north, and increasingly further offshore in northern Queensland.

Photographed on Kiama pelagic, June 2016