Chatham Islands Petrel
Pterodroma axillaris(Salvin, O, 1893)
English (US) Chatham Islands Petrel
The Chatham Islands Petrel (Pterodroma axillaris) 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 Rangatira Island (Chatham Islands); non-breeders range to Nazca Ridge west of Peru and Chile; rareRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterodroma axillaris
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Chatham Islands Petrel
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1893)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oestrelata axillaris
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1893)
- Type locality
- Chatham Islands.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1, no.6 p.33
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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