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Black-winged petrel

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Black-winged petrel

A black-winged petrel emerges from its metre-long burrow, at the bottom of which is the nest. An estimated 2.5 million pairs of black-winged petrels breed here on Macauley Island in the sub-tropical Kermadec group, north of the North Island.

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Kerry-Jayne Wilson, Petrels – Breeding, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8578/black-winged-petrel (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Kerry-Jayne Wilson, published 2 March 2009.