Sunday, June 22, 2025

Black-bellied Storm Petrel (Fregetta tropica) - 20Feb2022

The Black-bellied Storm Petrel is a tiny dancer on the rough seas of the southern oceans.  This one was seen in the infamous Drake Passage on the way to Antarctica.  I thought it strange that the second half of the latin binomial is tropica given where I saw it, so I looked it up.  They apparently do migrate to tropical waters in the summer (northern summer).



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