Slender-billed Prion
Pachyptila belcheri(Mathews, GM, 1912)
English (US) Slender-billed Prion
The Slender-billed Prion (Pachyptila belcheri) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: breeds Crozet, Kerguelen, Noir (off southern Chile), and Falkland islands; ranges southern oceans to Humboldt Current of western South America, off coast to southern Brazil, and southern AustralasiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pachyptila belcheri
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Slender-billed Prion
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Heteroprion belcheri
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
- Type locality
- Geelong, Victoria.
- Original description
- The birds of Australia 2 p.215,224
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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