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Juan Fernandez Petrel
Pterodroma externa(Salvin, 1875)
Conservation status: VulnerableOrigin: Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pterodroma
At a glance
The Juan Fernandez Petrel, listed as Vulnerable and native to Australia.
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
- Origin
- Native
- Commonness
- Rare
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The Juan Fernández petrel is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae. It nests on a single island off the coast of Chile, in the Juan Fernández Archipelago. It was previously classified as a subspecies of the white-necked petrel, which is found in tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
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