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Photos of the flying White Chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) on the open sea, off the coast of South Africa.

White-chinned Petrels (Procellaria aequinoctialis) are smaller than albatrosses, they have a wingspread of between 1.3 and 1.4 metres and weigh up to 1.4 kilograms. In the Cape region they are found all year round. White-chinned Petrels follow boats, especially fish trawlers. They are good divers and especially endangered by longlines. Many White-chinned Petrels, Masked Boobies, Laysan, Black-footed and Wandering Albatrosses as well as other sea birds die from the hooks of the long-line fishery. There are lines with a length of more than 100 kilometres with more than 20,000 hooks to which the fish baits are attached. As soon as the lines are let down from the boat into the water, the birds try to catch the easy prey. Often they get caught in the hooks and drown as soon as the line falls down through their weight. Longlines have disastrous consequences in every aspect, leaving behind a desert landscape in the sea.



< Procellaria aequinoctialis
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species




A White chinned Petrel seems to stand in the air
A White chinned Petrel seems to stand in the air

Flying White chinned Petrel
Flying White chinned Petrel

White chinned Petrel in the sky in front of Dyer Island
White chinned Petrel in the sky in front of Dyer Island

White chinned Petrel in flight
White chinned Petrel in flight

White chinned Petrel over the sea
White chinned Petrel over the sea

White chinned Petrel in front of Dyer Island
White chinned Petrel in front of Dyer Island



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