Deep Forest Canopy
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Shearwaters and Petrels

Fairy Prion

Pachyptila turtur

The fairy prion is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of blue-grey upperparts with a prominent dark "M" marking and white underneath. The sexes are alike. It is a small prion which frequents the low subantarctic and subtropic seas.

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