CAPE PETREL

Photographed off Stewart Island, April, 2019

(*   789)               CAPE PETREL               Daption capense

NEW ZEALAND              101

Also known as Cape Pigeon, Pintado Petrel, Cape Fulmar. Only member of genus Caption. Common seabird, estimated 2 million population. Two subspecies: D. Capense capense breeds on circumpolar subantarctic islands; D. Capense austral breeds on New Zealand’s subantarctic islands.