Vik's Gallery:   Great-winged Petrel (3/4)

PROCELLARIIFORMES: Procellariidae

Pterodroma macroptera  

A tube-nosed Great-winged Petrel snatches at burley tossed from our boat at the edge of the continental shelf.

Tube-nosed birds (from tiny storm-petrels to huge albatrosses) have very good senses of smell which enables them to hone in on food from some distance away.