Short communications86 Marine Ornithology 26 The Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica breeds in Antarc-

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Petrel; Antarctica; Prince Edward Islands; Thalassoica antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.4728; http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/26/26_18.pdf

tica, on a number of inland nunataks and on several coastal islands (van Franeker et al. in press). It has a circumpolar pelagic distribution, and is largely restricted to the extreme Southern Ocean, south of 63oS. Vagrants have been recorded from Africa, South America and Australia (Marchant & Higgins 1990). There are six previous records of this species in the African sector of the Southern Ocean; three records from the Prince Edward Islands and three records from South Africa (Table 1). All South African specimens were recorded south of 33oS, and during the species ’ non-breeding season, i.e.