BirdUp · Species
White-necked Petrel
Pterodroma cervicalis(Salvin, 1891)
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pterodroma
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Summer
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The white-necked petrel, also known as the white-naped petrel, is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae. During the non-breeding season it occurs throughout a large part of the Pacific, but it is only known to breed on Macauley Island in New Zealand's Kermadec Islands and the Australian territory of Norfolk Island and Phillip Island. It formerly bred on Raoul Island, but has now been extirpated from this locality due to predation by rats and cats. Reports of breeding on Merelava, Vanuatu, are more likely to be the very similar Vanuatu petrel, P. occulta, which some consider to be a subspecies of the white-necked petrel. The IUCN rating as vulnerable is for the "combined" species.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Phillip I. (south of Norfolk Is., far east of Australia) and Macauley I. (Kermadec Is., north-east of North I., New Zealand)
- Non-breeding range
- To south-east Australia and north-west and north-central Pacific Ocean to south-east Japan and east-central Pacific
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
4 photos
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