Bulwer's petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)

Indonesian –Petrel bulweri

Description: medium-sized (27 cm) sooty brown petrel with paler brown underparts. Pale bar on wings usually visible. Distinguished from Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel by larger size and long, wedge-shaped tail. Iris –brown; bill –black; feet –pinkish

Distribution status: a birds of the oceans. Breeds in northern latitudes and generally not found south of the China Sea but sight records indicate it may now sometimes occur in the Java Sea.

Habits: flies more strongly than storm-petrels with fluttery erratic swooping and high wheeling loops.

Diet: fish.