Antarctica (NB), Argentina, Australia (B), Brazil, Chile (B), Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Southern Territories (B), New Zealand, South Africa (B), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (B), Uruguay (NB).
Subantarctic, from Diego Ramírez Is, Cape Horn and South Georgia eastwards through islands of southern Indian Ocean to Macquarie I.
 
Population
Estimated population is 3,000,000 (2010).
Blue Petrel (Halobaena caerulea) [XC555368]
by Omar Barroso from Mayes, France (song)
Blue Petrel (Halobaena caerulea) [XC433198]
by cgemard from Archipielago Diego Ramirez, Chile (song)
Nest
A large cavity at the end of a burrow, lined with fine root-fibers, twigs, or leaves. The burrows are usually made beneath plants growing on hillsides.
Eggs (Guide)
1; white; oval; about 50 x 37 mm. Incubation: about 46 days; by both sexes.
Young
Semi-altricial, nidicolous. Fledging in about 43 - 53 days. Fed both both parents at regular intervals but not neccassarily every night.
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