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.

CAPE PETREL

Photographed on Kiama Pelagic, June 2016

789           CAPE PETREL          Daption capense

Australia         (633)

Also known as Cape Pigeon. Follows ships, in some places gathers near shore to feed on offal at sewerage outfalls. Breeds widely on coasts of Antartica and many Antarctic and sub-antarctic Islands, incl. NZ. Circumpolar dispersal through s. oceans to beyond tropic Capricorn. Regular, fairly common winter and spring.