Black-capped petrel
Pterodroma hasitata
Identification Tips:
- Sexes similar
- Pelagic bird only coming ashore to breed
- Dark bill with tube on top
- White forehead, collar and rump
- Dark upperparts
- White underparts
- Long wings and tail
- White underwing with dark border and dark bar across coverts
- Flight alternates flaps with long glides
Similar species:
Audubon's and Manx Shearwaters lack white collar and rump. Larger Greater
Shearwater lacks white forehead and has a duller underwing pattern.