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Black-vented Shearwater: Medium shearwater, brown-black upperparts, white underparts, brown mottling on sides of breast and flanks. Tail is dark. Eats fish, crustaceans, and squid. Quick low flight with short stiff wingbeats followed by glide. Soars in high winds.
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Buller's Shearwater: This medium-sized bird has gray upperparts and white underparts. The head has a white face and black cap. The bill and tail are black. The legs and feet are pink. A dark gray M-pattern is visible across the upperwings and back in flight. It rotates deep steady wing beats with long glides. It soars in high winds. It feeds on krill, small fish, and jellyfish. The sexes are similar.
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Bulwer's Petrel: This medium-sized petrel is dark brown overall with pale diagonal bars across secondary coverts. The long tail is usually held in a point; wedge shape visible when fanned. It has a black hooked bill and black legs and feet. Feeds on squid and small fish. It picks food from the surface while in flight. Makes a series of stiff flaps before each short twisting glide. Sexes are alike.
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Bermuda Petrel: Medium petrel, gray-brown upperparts shading to black on rump; white underparts except for dusky sides of upper breast. Base of tail has white band. White face, forehead. Black-brown cap goes to eyes. In flight shows black-gray upperwings, white underwings with black margins, tips.
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Black-capped Petrel: Large petrel with white underparts, dark brown to black back and upper wings, black cap, and white collar (this field mark is missing in some birds). Tail is long, dark, and wedge-shaped; underwings show broad dark margins. Hooked bill is dark, legs are pink. High arcing flight.
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Barolo Shearwater: Tiny shearwater, dark brown upperparts and white underparts; dark cap extends only to eye. Bill is short and black. Swims and dives for food, picks food off surface of water. Feeds on fish and squid. Flight is low, fast and straight, alternates rapid wing beats and banking glides.
Formerly called the Little Shearwater. Name changed to Barolo Shearwater in 2014 by the American Ornithologist Union.
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Black-winged Petrel: This petrel is medium-sized with dark gray around the eye, upperwings black with gray secondaries, underparts white with narrow gray band across upper breast, underwing white with black edging. It has a stout, short black bill and pink legs and feet with black toes. Flight has rapid wing beats with glides and soaring arcs. The diet is mainly comprised of squid and prawns.
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Bonin Petrel: This small seabird has a short, slightly hooked bill with a short tube on the top. It has gray upperparts, a gray neck side and a white front and underparts. Upper wings are black-gray, and under wings are white with black-gray leading and trailing edges. It has pink legs and feet and an agile flight with rapid wing beats. It mainly feeds on lantern fish and hatchet fish.
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