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Species
Least Concernbroad-billed prion
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderProcellariiformes
- FamilyProcellariidae
Ширококлювая китовая птичка (лат. Pachyptila vittata) — морская птица семейства буревестниковые.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pachyptila
- Image
- Broad-billed Prion, Rangatira, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 1.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Pachyptila vittata
- Commons category
- Pachyptila vittata
- taxon common name
- krupnokljuni zovoj
- wingspan
- 61.5
- egg incubation period
- 47
- litter size
- 1
- taxon range
- Africa
- short name
- P. vittata
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Encyclopedic overview
The broad-billed prion (Pachyptila vittata) is a small pelagic seabird in the shearwater and petrel family, Procellariidae. It is the largest prion, with grey upperparts plumage, and white underparts. The sexes are alike. It ranges from the southeast Atlantic to New Zealand mainly near the Antarctic Convergence. In the south Atlantic it breeds on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island; in the south Pacific it breeds on islands off the south coast of South Island, New Zealand and on the Chatham Islands. It has many other names that have been used such as blue-billed dove-petrel, broad-billed dove-petrel, long-billed prion, common prion, icebird, and whalebird.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Broad-billed Prion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.