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Bird field guide > Bird identification [O-P] > Petrel, Fork-tailed bird pictures
Petrel, Fork-tailed bird pictures
FORK-TAILED PETREL
105. Oceanodroma furcata. 8 inches.
These birds have a plumage of bluish gray, the wings being darker and the under-parts lightest.
Nest. - Single egg is laid at the end of a burrow on the ground.
Egg white with a fine wreath of purplish black specks about the larger end.
Found breeding on the islands of Alaska.
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