Angola, Antarctica (B), Argentina, Australia, Bouvet Island (B), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Southern Territories (B), Heard Island and McDonald Islands (B), Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand (B), Peru, Réunion, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (B), St Helena, Uruguay (NB).
Vagrant to Cook Islands, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gibraltar, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Norway (B), Seychelles, Timor-Leste.
Population
Estimated population is 2,000,000 (2010).
Cape Petrel (Daption capense) [XC293101]
by Guy Kirwan from South Bay, approx 7 km S, near Kaikoura, South Island, New Zealand (call)
Cape Petrel (Daption capense) [XC481056]
by Mike Bell\/Dave Boyle from South Bay, approx 7 km S, near Kaikoura, South Island, New Zealand (call)
Nest
A slight structure, composed of a few small stones and a little earth, on a ledge of a cliff. In colonies.
Eggs (Guide)
1; white; rounded-oval; about 63 x 43 mm. Incubation: 41 - 50 days; by both sexes. Two eggs indicate two females have contributed to the clutch.
Young
Semi-altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 210 days. Tended by both parents.
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
capense (Linnaeus, 1758) - Antarctica and islands of subantarctic from South Georgia east to Heard I.
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