Blue Petrel

Taxonomy

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae

Genus

Halobaena

eBird Code

blupet1

Distribution

breeds islands of subantarctic Atlantic and Indian oceans mostly south of Antarctic Convergence from Diego Ramírez (south of Tierra del Fuego), Cape Horn, and South Georgia through subantarctic islands of southern Indian Ocean to Macquarie Island (southeast of Australia); forages to Antarctic waters; disperses to waters of southern South America and southern Australia