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The Soft-Plumaged Petrel (Pterodroma mollis) is a medium-sized petrel that breeds on Gough and Tristan da Cunha.
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The Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca) also breeds on Tristan da Cunha and Gough and occasionally follows our ship closely.
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White-chinned Petrels (Procellaria aequinoctialis) breed amongst others on South Georgia. It's an abundant species in the Southern Oceans, but a frequent victim of longline fishing.
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A Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) accompanied by a prion (possibly a Broad-billed Prion (Pachyptila vittata).
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A juvenile Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos). The species breeds only on the Tristan da Cunha archipelago and Gough, but has a wide distribution that ranges all over the Southern Ocean.
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A Wandering or Tristan Albatross (Diomedea exulans or D. dabbenena). The species are nearly impossible to differentiate.
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Grey Petrel (Procellaria cinerea).
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Subantarctic Skuas (Stercorarius antarcticus) are opportunists, that will follow the ship in search for food. But we also witnessed them a couple of times attacking Great Shearwaters.
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Various species of Subantarctic Skuas are distinguished; this is the darker species.
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Spectacled petrels (Procellaria conspicillata) near Tristan da Cunha. The world population is about 4000 pairs and they breed only on the Tristan da Cunha islands.
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The Broad-billed Prion (Pachyptila vittata) is one of the bigger prions.
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| Spectacled petrels are also victims of longline fishing techniques. |
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| For a long time, the Spectacled petrel was considered a subspecies of the White-chinned Petrel; today it is considered to be a species of its own. |
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The flight of the Grey Petrel (Procellaria cinerea) resembles the flight of the albatross, as the petrel glides through the air.
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Juvenile Tristan or Wandering Albatross (Diomedea dabbenena of D. exulans).
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| Adult Tristan or Wandering Albatross (Diomedea dabbenena of D. exulans). |
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