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title: "White-chinned Petrel"
description: "Procellaria aequinoctialis — Birds. The white-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) also known as the Cape hen and shoemaker, is a large petrel in the family Procellariidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/white-chinned-petrel
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White-chinned Petrel

> Procellaria aequinoctialis — Birds. The white-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) also known as the Cape hen and shoemaker, is a large petrel in the family Procellariidae.

- Scientific name: *Procellaria aequinoctialis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 2392
- Wikidata: [Q276206](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276206)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4136](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4136)

## Names

- en: White-chinned Petrel
- de: Weißkinnsturmvogel
- es: Petrel barba blanca
- fr: Pétrel à menton blanc
- nl: Witkinstormvogel
- pt: Pardelão-de-queixo-branco
- pl: Burzyk białobrody

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (140), NZ (133), CL (61), AR (43), GS (41), UY (33), TF (28), AU (20), BR (18), NA (9), PE (6), FK (5)

## Summary

The white-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) also known as the Cape hen and shoemaker, is a large petrel in the family Procellariidae. It ranges around the Southern Ocean as far north as southern Australia, Peru and Namibia, and breeds colonially on scattered islands. The white-chinned petrel was formerly considered to be conspecific with the spectacled petrel (Procellaria conspicillata).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-chinned_petrel

## Photo

![White-chinned Petrel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-chinned-petrel/medium.jpg)

Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/160744156

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-chinned-petrel?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).