Aono Raina High Sea

East of the northern Line Islands, the open Pacific stretches between Kiritimati and the more northerly atolls. Leach's storm petrels forage over these waters; a wedge-rumped storm petrel, a bird associated with the Galápagos and the coasts of Peru and Chile, can also wander this far west. The small seabirds feed at the surface, fluttering and dipping among the waves.