Fluttering Shearwater vs Pintado Petrel

Fluttering Shearwater

Puffinus gavia

Medium229 gMarine

This is a medium to small-sized shearwater with a dark-brown-and-white body. The upper parts, including neck, wings and tail, are uniformly dark brown. The face and neck have a grey-brown colour gradually fading into white below the eye. The under body, from chin to the under-tail, is white except for a dark thigh patch that can be seen in flight. The bottom wing is commonly white while the axillary area is covered in grey-brown fur. Under light conditions, the appearance is different.

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Pintado Petrel

Daption capense

Large430 gMarine

The pintado petrel has a black head and neck, and a white belly, breast, and its underwing is white with a black border. Its back, and upperwings are black and white speckled, as is its tail which also has a band of black. It is 35–40 cm (14–16 in) long and the wingspan 80–90 cm (31–35 in). Two subspecies are recognised, though intermediates occur: D. c. capense (Linnaeus, 1758) – breeds on circumpolar subantarctic islands, winters at sea north to around the Tropic of Capricorn and locally further north in cold currents (to the Equator around the Galapagos Islands).

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