Kerguelen Petrel

When to see the Kerguelen Petrel

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Kerguelen Petrel

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 4 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 Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina.

About the Kerguelen Petrel

The Kerguelen petrel is a small slate-grey seabird in the family Procellariidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Aphrodroma. It is a pelagic, circumpolar seabird of the Southern Ocean. It breeds on islands in the southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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Easily confused with

Phoenix PetrelPterodroma albaThe Phoenix petrel is a medium-sized tropical seabird, measuring up to 35 cm (1.15 ft) long, with a wingspan of 83 cm (2.72 ft). Boyd's ShearwaterPuffinus boydiBoyd's shearwater, also known as the Cape Verde little shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Cape Verde archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean some 570 km off the coast of West Africa. Bannerman's ShearwaterPuffinus bannermaniBannerman's shearwater is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater.