Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea
Despite its dainty appearance, the snow petrel is one of the world's most southerly breeding birds.
Snow petrel
Snow petrels frequent Antarctica and the surrounding seas. They feeds out at sea, but breed on the coast and spend the winter on the pack ice. They've even been spotted at the South Pole.
Scientific name: Pagodroma nivea ...
Brown Bluff has Snow Petrels flying high on the cliff. I watch one fly into a hole 3/4 of the way to the top. A few Wilson's Storm-Petrels nest here also.
Snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea)
Southern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides)
Gould's petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera)
Wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus)
White-necked petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis)
Henderson petrel (Pterodroma atrata) ...
The huge giant petrels, genus Macronectes, which are convergent with the albatrosses,
The true fulmars, genus Fulmarus,
Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica,
Cape Petrel Daption capense,
Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea.
genus Daption and are in turn a member of the procellariidae family and Procellariiformes order. There appears to be a sub-group within the family consisting of the Giant Petrels, the members of Fulmarus, the Antarctic Petrel, and the Snow Petrel.[6] ...
 See also: Petrel, Seabird, Penguin, Storm-Petrel, Skua
  
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