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Barau's Petrel
Pterodroma baraui(Jouanin, 1964)
EndangeredNative
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pterodroma
- Conservation
- Endangered
- Commonness
- Rare
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Barau's petrel is a medium-sized gadfly petrel from the family Procellariidae. Its main breeding site is the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Montane Réunion (west Mascarenes, south-west Indian Ocean)
- Non-breeding range
- Tropical Indian Ocean mostly south of the Equator, off east and south Madagascar; to Arabian Sea and north-west Australian waters
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