It is a pelagic, circumpolar seabird of the Southern Ocean.

It breeds on islands in the southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The Kerguelen petrel was formally described in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson.

The species attends its colonies nocturnally, breeding in burrows in wet soil.

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