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FAIRY PRION FACTS |
Description
Small bird with blue-grey plumage on upper parts and white underneath. Dark 'M' on upper parts extending to wing tips. Wedge-shaped tail with dark tip. Short narrow bill with a strong hook. Blue bill and feet.
Feed in large flocks, sometimes in mixed species groups. Erratic, buoyant and swift flight. Flits from wave to wave top picking food from the water surface. Breeds on islands and rock stacks using crevices and caves in cliffs in rock falls.
Author credit: Nicole Zehntner / Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Habitat
Oceans and coastal breeding islands.
Food
Omnivore
Range
Around Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Procellariiformes | | Family: | Procellariidae | | Genus: | Pachyptila | | Species: | turtur | | Common Name: | Fairy Prion |
Relatives in same Genus
Slender-billed Prion (P. belcheri)
Antarctic Prion (P. desolata)
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