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The providence petrel is the sweetest seabird
JUNE 12, 2018
Meet the providence petrel, Australia's most trusting bird.
NEW ZEALAND GETS a lot of air time for being home to an array of adorable birds, perhaps none so charismatic as the flightless, clumsy, and just-a-little-too-trusting Kākāpō – the world’s heaviest parrot.
It’s almost as if you put a bird in a world with no predators, and you see its true character.
But let’s not forget that Australia has its own version of the Kākāpō. It might not be fat, green, and flightless, but it comes when you call, it sits in your lap, and it makes one hell of a crash landing.
Meet the providence petrel (Pterodroma solandri) – one of Lord Howe Island’s strangest species (which is saying a lot).
More:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2018/06/the-providence-petrel
