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Grey-backed Storm-Petrel |
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Garrodia nereis |
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Description (10)
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Grey-backed Storm-Petrel
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Other Scientific Names
Oceanites nereis [Turbott (1990)]
Other Names (World)
Grey-backed Storm-Petrel, Gray-backed Storm-Petrel, Grey-backed Storm Petrel
Family
Oceanitidae (Southern Storm-petrels)
Size
16 - 19 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Gould, 1841)
Derivation
Garrodia - ?: nereis - after daughter of Nereus, an ancient sea-god
Abundance (Guide)
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Regular visitor but in small numbers to waters off south-eastern Australian and waters of New Zealand.
Habitat
Marine, mainly in the sub-Antarctic Zone of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. In Australian waters occurs north to the Sub-tropical Convergence.
Argentina, Australia, Chile, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Southern Territories (B), New Zealand (B), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Vagrant to Antarctica.
Unknown to South Africa, St Helena.
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Circumpolar in subantarctic, breeding from Falkland Is east to Chatham Is.
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Breeds on islands in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. Rare winter visitor to Bass Strait and Tasmanian seas.
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Rarity Status
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Population
Estimated population is 200,000 (2010).
Status LC
Probably secure.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Food
Surface plankton, fat from dead whales or seals.
Voice
A low, regularly repeated wheezy chirp or a quiet wheezy croak.
Breeding Season (Guide)
Does not breed in Australia. Breeds on islands in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic (August - April).
Nest
A chamber at the end of a burrow. In loose colonies.
Eggs (Guide)
1; white with rufous-red spots, mostly at blunt end; oval; about 33 x 25 mm. Incubation: estimated at about 45 days; by both sexes.
Young
Semi-altricial, nidicolous. Fed by both parents by incomplete regurgitation.
Subspecies
No subspecies.
References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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