snow petrel
pagodroma nivea latin

The following habitats are found across the Snow petrel distribution range.

Snow petrel partners are faithful for life (around 20 years).

Snow petrels fly many miles into the island to find rock on which to lay their eggs.

Above them, a single snow petrel wheeled against the Hockney blue.

Antarctica's snow petrels breed farther south than any other bird.

The Snow petrel can be found in a number of locations including: Antarctica.

Snow Petrels also nest there in smaller numbers.

Remarkably, though, off-course skuas and snow petrels are occasionally seen there.

Snow petrels frequent Antarctica and the surrounding seas.

The Snow Petrel is the only member of the genus Pagodroma.

The Snow Petrel is one of only three birds that breed exclusively in Antarctica.

So named because of the common presence of a pair of snow petrels seen flying around the peak over several days in November 1983.

On the upper slopes we may even see nesting snow petrels and Wilson's storm petrels.

This is also one of the principal breeding areas for Snow Petrels in South Georgia.

Colonies are also the sites of cleaning areas where Snow Petrels, far from the sea, bathe in snow.

Other birds recorded as nesting there include Brown Skuas and Snow Petrels.

I never appreciated how sophisticated birds are until I watched a snow petrel fly upwind here in Antarctica.

Snow Petrels feed mainly on fish, some cephalopods, mollusks and krill as well as carrion.

Snow petrels take their place on nunataks and begin to court, but are preyed on by South Polar skuas.

Yukidori is Japanese for "Snow Petrel".

The steep cliffs provide nesting sites for a colony of Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea).

Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea.

Adélie and chinstrap penguins as well as pintado and snow petrels have been observed around or flying about the island.

Kelp gulls screech overhead, while the upper slopes are inhabited by nesting skuas, snow petrels and pintados.

Birds nesting at the site include several thousand Snow Petrels as well as a few South Polar Skuas.

On the skeletons of Puffinus nativitatus and Pagodroma nivea.

Mathews (1912) recognized Pagodroma nivea candida as a subspecies, taken from Peale's name.

The steep cliffs provide nesting sites for a colony of Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea).

Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea.

Mathews also described the subspecies Pagodroma nivea alba (Bulletin of the British Orn.

Pagodroma nivea confusa breeds on the South Sandwich Islands and Géologie Archipelago.

Thus, he created a nomen novum for the type he had designated in Birds, as Pagodroma nivea falklandica (Bulletin of the British Orn.

Named by ANCA after the Snow Petrels (Pagodroma nivea) which nest in the weathered sandstone walls of the gorge.

Pagodroma nivea nivea breeds on the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Islands, and other islands of the Scotia Archipelago.

In addition, J. Prevost (Oiseaux, 1969) identified Pagodroma nivea major to the greater snow petrel, thus rendering valid the nomen nudum of Bonaparte.

The Snow Petrel, Pagodroma nivea, is a small, pure white fulmarine petrel with black underdown, coal-black eyes, small black bill and bluish gray feet.

He had believed, erroneously, that the Cook expedition specimen represented the greater snow petrel, and designated it as Pagodroma nivea, incorporating P. major (Bonaparte) as a synonym of it.

Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948-49, and named by them for the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) which breeds in this area.

An exhaustive publication from 1995 tempting to list ALL the breeding sites of the Snow Petrel (Pagodroma nivea) in Antarctica mentions the Guébriant Islands as a possible breeding site, based on a single observation from 1962.

However, with the prevailing attitude at the time that names used in synonymy could not be used to identify forms, he later felt that P. n. candida could not be used and then amended this by creating the name Pagodroma nivea pealei.