White-chinned Petrel
Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 (0, 1)
Photo © Ed Dunens, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
STATUS
Southern Ocean. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
This first for Britain was seen by a lone observer who managed to capture a photograph that was enough to confirm identification.
BBRC RECORD
1). 2020 Orkney Scapa Flow, Mainland, 1CY+, 25th May, photo.
(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 592; BOURC (2022), Ibis 164: 363-368, 930; A. M. Stoddart, British Birds 116: 707-711, plates 385 a-e).
