White-headed Petrel

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White-headed Petrel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Pterodroma
Species: P. lessonii
Binomial name
Pterodroma lessonii
(Garnot, 1826)

The White-headed Petrel is a species of Procellariidae. Length:400mm.

White-headed Petrels breed alone or in colonies in burrows dug among tussocks and herbfields on subantarctic islands. They appear to feed pelagically on cephalopods and crustaceans (Marchant and Higgins, 1990).