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Fairy Prion

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Pachyptila
Species: P. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Least Concern ( LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. Procellariiformes is an order of Seabirds that comprises four families: the Albatrosses procellariids, Storm-petrels and Diving The family Procellariidae is a group of Seabirds that comprises the Fulmarine petrels the Gadfly petrels the prions, and the Shearwaters The prions are small Petrels in the Genus Pachyptila. Together with the Blue Petrel, they form one of the four groups within the Procellariidae turtur
Binomial name
Pachyptila turtur
Kuhl, 1820

The Fairy Prion, Pachyptila turtur is a small, up to 28cm long, seabird with grey upperparts plumage, black-tipped tail, black "M" wing markings and white below. Heinrich Kuhl ( September 17, 1797 - September 14, 1821) was a German Naturalist and Zoologist. Seabirds are Birds that have adapted to life within the marine environment

The Fairy Prion is found throughout oceans and coastal areas in the Southern Hemisphere. Southern Hemisphere is the half of a Planet that is South of the Equator —the word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' Their colonies can be found on Chatham, Snares and Antipodes Islands of New Zealand, Bass Strait Islands of Australia, Falkland Islands, Marion Island, the Crozet Islands and Macquarie Island. A seabird colony is a site which Seabirds visit to breed typically during the summer The Archipelago of the Chatham Islands ( Rekohu in the Moriori language and Wharekauri in the Māori language) is a territory The Snares (also known as Tini Heke and unofficially as Snares Islands) is a small island group at approximately 200 kilometres south of New Zealand The Antipodes Islands (from Greek αντίποδες - Antipodes) are inhospitable volcanic islands to the south of—and territorially New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Bass Strait (bæs is a sea Strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland ( Victoria in particular For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Prince Edward Islands are two small islands in the Sub-antarctic Indian Ocean that are politically part of South Africa. The Crozet Islands (Îles Crozet or officially Archipel Crozet) are a sub- Antarctic Archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean Macquarie Island lies in the southwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between Australia and Antarctica.

The diet consists mainly of planktonic crustaceans and other tiny sea animals, which they feed at night from the water's surface. Structure of crustaceans As Arthropods crustaceans have a stiff Exoskeleton, which must be shed to allow the animal to grow ( Ecdysis or molting

Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Fairy Prion is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global

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