BirdUp · Species
Black-winged Petrel
Pterodroma nigripennis(Rothschild, 1893)
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pterodroma
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The black-winged petrel is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae. It breeds on a number of oceanic islands in the tropical and subtropical East Pacific Ocean and spends the rest of the year at sea.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Round I. (north-east of Mauritius, central Mascarenes, south-west Indian Ocean); Lord Howe and Norfolk is. (far east of Australia), Grande Terre (New Caledonia), north and east North I. and Kermadec Is. (north-east of North I.) and Chatham Is. (east of South I.; New Zealand), Tonga and Cook Is. (central Polynesia), Bass Rock (=Marotiri, south-east Austral Is., east Polynesia), and Rapa (east Tubuai=Austral Is., south-east Polynesia)
- Non-breeding range
- To waters off south-east Australia and Pacific Ocean south-east of Japan east to north-west Mexico and Central America, Galápagos and Peru
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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