Encyclopedia of Life · EOL (see source)
Species
Least Concernfairy prion
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderProcellariiformes
- FamilyProcellariidae
Habitatmarine
Chile Central
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pachyptila
- Mass
- 139
- Image
- Fairy Prion with egg.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Pachyptila turtur
- Commons category
- Pachyptila turtur
- Commons gallery
- Pachyptila turtur
- taxon common name
- sinji zovoj
- wingspan
- 58
- egg incubation period
- 47
- litter size
- 1
- short name
- P. turtur
- taxon range
- South America
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Encyclopedic overview
The fairy prion (Pachyptila turtur) 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.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fairy Prion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.