Broad-billed Prion

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When to see the Broad-billed Prion

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Broad-billed Prion

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia, Argentina, Chile.

About the Broad-billed Prion

The broad-billed prion is a small pelagic seabird in the shearwater and petrel family, Procellariidae. It is the largest prion, with grey upperparts plumage, and white underparts. The sexes are alike. It ranges from the southeast Atlantic to New Zealand mainly near the Antarctic Convergence. In the south Atlantic it breeds on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island; in the south Pacific it breeds on islands off the south coast of South Island, New Zealand and on the Chatham Islands. It has many other names that have been used such as blue-billed dove-petrel, broad-billed dove-petrel, long-billed prion, common prion, icebird, and whalebird.

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Easily confused with

Fulmar PrionPachyptila crassirostrisThe fulmar prion is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae, found in the southern oceans. Salvin's PrionPachyptila salviniSalvin's prion is a small 29 cm (11 in) petrel with grey and white plumage, and a blue bill. MacGillivray's PrionPachyptila macgillivrayiMacGillivray's prion is a species of small petrel in the Southern Ocean.