BirdUp · Species
Cook's Petrel
Pterodroma cookii(Gray, GR, 1843)
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pterodroma
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Cook's petrel or tītī (Māori), blue-footed petrel, is a Procellariform seabird endemic to New Zealand. It is a member of the gadfly petrels and part of the subgenus Cookilaria Bonaparte, 1856, which includes the very similar Stejneger's petrel.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Great and Little Barrier is. (off north-east North I.) and Codfish I. (=Whenua Hou, north-west of Stewart I.; New Zealand)
- Non-breeding range
- To Tasman Sea, off south-east Australia and north-east to south-east Pacific Ocean off Aleutian Is. and west Pacific coast from north-west Mexico to Chile
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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