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	Cape Petrel (Wild Birds)
		The Cape Petrel, Daption capense, is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae.
		Cape Petrels are extremely aggressive at sea both towards their own species and others, and will even spit oil at competitors.
		Cape Petrels are extremely common seabirds; their population is estimated to be around 2 million birds.
	birds.allaboutthese.org /cape-petrel (489 words)

	Petrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The family Procellariidae is the main radiation of medium-sized 'true petrels', characterised by united nostrils with medium septum, and a long outer functional primary.
		The taxonomy of the petrels is complex, and several genera are intermediate.
		The word "petrel" comes from the Latin name for the Christian Saint Peter, and refers to the habits of certain species to hover just above the ocean waves, with their feet barely touching the water, thus giving an appearance of walking on water, as St. Peter is said to have done.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petrel (354 words)

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		White chinned petrel (Procellaria cinerea) and Antarctic prion (Pachyptila desolata) are widely distributed throughout the island, breeding in burrows in tussac grassland.
		The population of cape petrel (Daption capense) increased greatly during the whaling era, and the present population of 10,000 breeding pairs has a widespread distribution, mainly on ledges of steep cliffs.
		Cape petrels can often be seen scavenging around ships feeding on waste food or marine creatures killed by the hot water from the engines.
	www.sgisland.org /pages/environ/b_petrels.htm (1012 words)

	Petrels - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Cape petrel, also known as the 'painted one' because of the striking pattern on its back and wings is a dark brown-fl and white petrel smaller than the Antarctic Petrel.
		The White-headed Petrel is a burrowing petrel with dark wings, a white head with a dark eye and a pale body and tail.
		The Atlantic petrel is one of the largest gadfly petrels, recognized by its striking white breast and belly in contrast to the rest of its plumage which is uniformly brown.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/birds/petrels.shtml (916 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Cape petrel
		Cape petrel breed in colonies on the Antarctic continent, subtemperate islands near New Zealand and on subantarctic islands, in the South Atlantic and the South Indian Oceans.
		The population and breeding status of Cape petrel is satisfactory.
		Cape petrel generally do not start breeding until they are at least 5 years old.
	www.aad.gov.au /default.asp?casid=1551 (317 words)

	Petrel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The petrels are (A bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.) seabirds in the (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) bird order Procellariiformes.
		The family Hydrobatidae is the (additional info and facts about storm-petrel) storm-petrels, small pelagic petrels with a fluttering flight which often follow ships.
		These are (Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas) auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/petrel.htm (420 words)

	Cape Naturaliste Birding Sites
		Cape Naturaliste is located about 3 hours south south west from Perth.
		Cape Naturaliste is 13 kilometres north west of Dunsborough.
		Cape Naturaliste is one of the best seawatching sites in the south west, and is a must if you want to see
	members.iinet.net.au /~foconnor/sites/cape_naturaliste.htm (767 words)

	Breeding Biology of the Snow Petrel Near Cape Hallett, Antarctica
		The chick period of the Snow Petrel, estimated here at more than 70 days, is longer than that of the Wilson Petrel which was determined to be 52 days for one chick (Roberts, 1940), but not as long as that of the Short-tailed Shearwater which averages 94 days in the nest (Marshall and Serventy, 1956).
		The delay in egg laying by the Snow Petrel may in fact be necessary for the birds to produce the egg, as their egg laying coincides with the first upswing in the food supply in late November and early December.
		The Snow Petrel does not use nest cavities as protected as those of the Wilson Petrel; many cavities are open to the wind from several directions, although all that I saw were well protected overhead.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Condor/files/issues/v064n06/p0488-p0499.html (9465 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Cape Verde Islands dry forests (AT0201)
		Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands and five islets located in the eastern Atlantic Ocean approximately 500 km from the coast of Senegal, West Africa (16° 00’ N, 24° 00’ W).
		Cape Verde has a tropical climate with two seasons; a dry season from December to July and a warm and wet season between August and November.
		The Cape Verde Islands lie 500 km off the coast of mainland Africa, and are sufficiently distant and distinct to warrant their own ecoregion.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0201_full.html (1284 words)

	JAMAICA PETREL, Pterodroma caribbaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Jamaica Petrel (see Remarks 1) formerly nested in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, where specimens were taken at the summit in 1829 (Bancroft 1835) and in Cinchona Plantation on the south flank at about 1,600 m in November and December 1879 (Bond 1956b, Benson 1972, Imber 1991).
		Godman (1907-1910) indicated that the petrels were believed to be "nearly extinct", for despite careful searches and the offer of a reward no birds were found.
		The petrel's colonies in Jamaica were known to have been invaded by mongooses by the end of nineteenth century (Scott 1891-1893, Godman 1907-1910; see Population), although Imber (1991) appears to have overlooked this information, arguing that there is no evidence to support the Jamaica Petrel's being affected by these predators.
	www.irf.org /bcaripet.htm (1071 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World -- Cape Petrel
		The food of the Cape Pigeon is as varied as its voracity is increadible.
		Paz-Barreto, D. (1997) [On the reproductive biology of the Cape Pigeon (Daption capense) at Laurie Island, South Orkneys.] El Hornero 14(4): 179--183.
		Many thanks to Ron Saldino for allowing use of his photographs.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /CapePet.html (283 words)

	Where do you want to go birding in Cape Verde today?
		Pelagic Birding in Senegal and Cape Verde Islands - by Angus Wilson.
		Some sightings of the Canaries to Cape Verde crossing are mentioned at the end.
		The Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) islands are a volcanic archipelago lying 450-800 Km west of Senegal, in west Africa.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/africacapeverde.htm (445 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Antarctica
		Cape Fur Seals were seen and the blow of a distant Hump-backed Whale was a new experience.
		Good views were also obtained of diving petrels; tiny little whirring things like miniature brown clockwork puffins, one minute flitting across the waves and gone the next as they dived head first into the swell.
		Several Atlantic Petrels were the highlight and the day culminated in an excellent Landfall Dinner immaculately prepared by the galley staff who, it should be recorded, had provided us with 3 good meals a day even in the most appalling of conditions.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/antarctica/Antarctica2002/Antarctica2002.htm (5576 words)

	Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes Giganteus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Giant Petrels can be very vicious, often seen in bloody attacks on penguins or young chicks, or tearing flesh from seal or whale carrion.
		Another name given to giant petrels is "stinker", which comes from their ability to spit (with accuracy) a blob of oil and food at their attacker.
		Although not endangered, giant petrels are often caught in long line fishing hooks, and are easily disturbed from their nests.
	www.70south.com /resources/animals/birds/southerngiantpetrel (232 words)

	Birding Downunder - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand and Australia
		Cape pigeons, Antarctic terns, White-fronted terns and Red-billed gulls are around the coastline.
		We will be especially interested in looking out for the Chatham Island Petrel (it has been seen on this leg of the voyage before) and also the very rare Chatham Island Taiko or Magenta Petrel.
		It is a relatively shallow area of water, compared with the rest of the surrounding ocean, it is also one of the best places for pelagic watching with an overlap of both northern or more temperate species and those birds from southern latitudes.
	www.great-adventures.com /know/deals/nz-birdingdownunder.html (2068 words)

	Birdwatching trip report - New Zealand - surfbirds.com
		Returning a little too quickly we'd seen seven albatross forms, both giant petrels, grey, grey-faced, Cape and Westland petrels, Hutton's shearwater and fairy prion not to mention the various shags and terns, it was fantastic.
		Cape petrels and sootys were common and as the first haul came in so did the birds, it was fantastic!
		This turned out to be my best Kaikoura pelagic with 1 or 2 grey -faced petrels, the adult NZ fl-browed mollymawk plus an adult and immature sub-antarctic fl-browed as well as the regular array of wandering and royal albatrosses and cauta mollymawks; several dusky dolphins passed the boat on the way out.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/NewZealandSep01.htm (14486 words)

	Submission No:228 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The submission briefly outlines a white pterodroma-like petrel slightly smaller than accompanying Cape Petrels Daption capense with a slimmer build and narrower wings.
		The observer was careful to rule out any possibility of an albino Cape Petrel, eliminating this species by the smaller size, buoyant flight and obvious wedge-shaped tail.
		The Snow Petrel is normally confined to areas south of the Antarctic Convergence with records further North in Australian waters confined to a record from Heard Island in the winter of 1948 (Gilchrist 1952).
	users.bigpond.net.au /palliser/barc/sub228.html (276 words)

	May 27, 2003 Mystery Storm-Petrel off Cape Hatteras, NC - Seabirding.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is, however, a short note on sexing European Storm Petrels using plumage in the Spring 2001 edition of the BTO's Ringers' Bulletin, with photographs of classic male and female underwing patterns.
		The pattern exhibited in the mystery bird is classic male European Storm Petrel, with the white all the way out to the carpal including the primary undercoverts, while the classic female pattern is for the white to be restricted to the area nearest the body.
		Petrel were a bird I never expected to see near Lookout but then Lookout has always yielded suprises.
	www.patteson.com /images/030527stormpetrel.htm (1881 words)

	Petrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They occur in three families within that group, which also includes the Albatross family, Diomedeidae.
		These are large and agile short-billed petrels in the genus Pterodroma.
		All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
	www.termsdefined.net /pe/petrel.html (325 words)

	Antarctic Petrel (Thalassoica antarctica) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Antarctic Petrel is similar to the Cape (Pintado) Petrel but without the pied (speckled) upperwing.
		Antarctic petrels spend the Antarctic winter at sea near the pack ice edge, returning the continent to breed in the summer.
		Antarctic petrels are not endangered with several million pairs in existence.
	www.70south.com /resources/animals/birds/antarcticpetrel (198 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cape Verde Swift is also present. A surprise Barn Owl flew straight over the square outside the Hotel one evening as we were having a few beers — this was good.
		However the only birds I saw were a few Cape Verde Shearwaters, but the flying fish that the boat scares are really cool.
		The first afternoon I spent sea watching, there were plenty of Cape Verde Shearwaters and a few Cape Verde Petrels around and a close in Booby kept an Osprey company.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/cape-verde/cv1/cv-mar-03.htm (2745 words)

	procellaria - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera.
		Diving petrel, any bird of the genus Pelecanoides.
		Pintado petrel, any one of several small petrels, especially Procellaria pelagica, or Mother Carey's chicken, common on both sides of the Atlantic.
	dict.die.net /procellaria (89 words)

	Birding tours South Africa, birdwatching Cape Town, pelagics
		Cape Town is regarded as a sea bird capital of the world.
		Throughout the year there is a reasonable chance of seeing Black-browed, Shy and Yellow-nosed Albatross; Giant and White-chinned Petrel; Sooty Shearwater; Wilson's Storm Petrel; Cape Gannet and Subantarctic Skua.
		Those fortunate enough to experience this magnificent spectacle from within the "cloud", with views of seabirds from as close as 2 meters, competing for scraps with each other and with Cape Fur Seals will never forget their experience.
	www.birdwatch.co.za /pelagics.htm (325 words)

	The Maritime Heritage Project: Gold Rush Mining Company Ships
		The ship arrived at St. Antonio, one of the Cape de Verde Islands, in 39 days from this port, and after procuring refreshments and stopping a small leak, had sailed for her destination.
		They were all well." The ship proceeded on her voyage, doubled Cape Horn, sighted Juan Fernandez and the mountains of Chili [sic], and dropped her anchor in San Francisco Bay September 1, 1849, 198 days from this port.
		The first issue of their handwritten newspaper, the Petrel, presented their version of Oh Susanna: "Oh, Ship Duxbury, you are the ship for me, you are the greatest humbug that's floating on the sea." The Petrel's contents ran to doggerel, undergraduate humor, and stylish bitching.
	www.maritimeheritage.org /PassLists/mining.html (6627 words)

	Antarctic birds
		The storm petrel (aka Wilson petrel, Oceanites oceanicus) is the smallest Antarctic bird, about 10cm in length.
		It is also the bird that has the longest migration circuit in the world: in July/august it goes to the Arctic to feed, and in December/January it comes to Antarctica to breed, always living in summer.
		This specie has been studied for 30 years, on 3 colonies (250 nests); thousands of birds have been tagged and it is probably the biggest demographic study in the world.
	www.gdargaud.net /Antarctica/Birds.html (1410 words)

	Cape pelagics tour by Tropical Birding: Birdwatching tours to the best sites in the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The continental shelf off Cape Town is regarded as one of the best pelagic birding spots in the world, where one can see up to six albatross species on a single day.
		The Western Cape is known for its variety of vagrant pelagic species.
		Cape Town's oceanic waters can be rough, and we advise, for the comfort of our clients, that an alternative day be selected should inclement weather prevent the boat from leaving harbour.
	www.tropicalbirding.com /tours/pelagic.htm (400 words)

	Report of Activities on the R/V N (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Of birds that we observed, Cape Petrel, and Southern Fulmar were present in the greatest numbers.
		Antarctic Petrels were rare and a single unidentified Storm Petrel was observed off the transect.
		Among the birds observed, Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea), Cape Petrels (Daption capense) and Southern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialoides) were the most common.
	www.ccpo.odu.edu /Research/globec/cruises/reports/report-30april.htm (676 words)

	Birdwatching in South Africa - August 2001
		Ostrich farms are common in the Cape and feral birds were often seen in open country away from towns.
		Birds in national parks such as Cape of Good Hope, West Coast, Bontebok and De Hoop N.R.s may have been wild, but are perhaps more likely to have also been of feral origin.
		Aardvarks are not welcomed by farmers as they are strongly attracted to water and will often dig into buried water pipes.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/south-africa-ad-0801-species.html (1972 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Wilsons storm-petrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wilson's storm petrel are gregarious at sea with flocks reaching several thousands at staging points during migration.
		Wilson's storm-petrel feed by running along the surface of the water with wings outstretched and bill (or their entire head) submerged in the water to scoop in their food, taking minutiae from the surface.
		Van Franeker, J.A. and Montague,T. Recoveries of petrel banded near Casey station, Wilkes Land, Antarctica, 1984 to 1985.
	www.antdiv.gov.au /?casid=1648 (555 words)

	21AprPeru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It did not have the mottled effect of a Cape Petrel and gave a very pied impression.
		Some people of the party have considerably experience of Cape Petrel, including our boatman Julian (Who has 20 years of experience including trips with Ted Parker).
		It would be nice to have more support to our observation in terms of other unusual records from Chile or elsewhere of the Antarctic seabirds coming this far north.
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~sustain/Enso97/0498/21AprPeru.htm (532 words)

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