Description
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Length: 64-74 cm. Colour: adult sooty-brown above, on head, neck and breast; belly and undertail coverts white; underwing white except for dark brown leading and trailing edges and tip; bill yellow to greenish grey with pink or blue tip; facial skin yellow to greenish; legs and feet yellow to greenish; immature like adult but with brown wash on underparts; bill and face grey. Habitat: shallow waters around oceanic islands. ()
Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.
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Distribution
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circum-(sub)tropical
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
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