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Common Diving Petrels (Pelecanoides urinatrix urinatrix) are distributed widely around coastal New Zealand and breed primarily on predator-free offshore islands. Despite their ubiquity, little is known of their at-sea foraging movement, as their small size and frequent diving behaviour have presented logistic challenges to obtaining high-resolution tracking data that reflect detailed movement patterns. We present the first attempt to collect detailed (5 min/fix) movement trajectories of Common Diving Petrels, using miniaturised global positioning system (GPS) loggers. Adult breeding Common Diving Petrels were tracked for single foraging trips from Tiritiri Matangi Island near Auckland, New Zealand. We applied a hidden Markov model to infer behavioural states from the movement data, and a kernel density estimation on the GPS fixes of area-restricted behaviour to characterise feeding hotspots. We found that …