Pintado Petrel
Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758)
Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels
Pintado Petrel, Daption capense, breeds on subantarctic and Antarctic islands and coasts in the Southern Ocean, and moves north outside the breeding season into cold waters reaching the tropics. It is a seabird in the petrel family, first described by Linnaeus in 1758. The bird is marked by a black head and neck, with white underparts and a black-and-white speckled back and upperwings. Its tail is also patterned, with a black band. It is one of the few petrels with a strongly pied look, and it is the only species in the genus Daption.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels
- Breeding range
- Southern Ocean, Antarctica: subantarctic and Antarctic is. and coasts
- Nonbreeding range
- to tropics in cold waters of Benguela Current of s Africa, s Australasia and Humboldt Current of South America n to Ecuador and s Brazil
