Cook's Petrel
Pterodroma cookii(Gray, GR, 1843)
English (US) Cook's Petrel
The Cook's Petrel (Pterodroma cookii) 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 Great and Little Barrier islands (off northeastern North Island) and Codfish Island (off Stewart Island, New Zealand); ranges to Tasman Sea, off southeastern Australia and northeastward to Aleutian Islands to ChileRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterodroma cookii
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Cook's Petrel
- Described by
- (Gray, GR, 1843)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Procellaria Cookii
- Described by
- (Gray, GR, 1843)
- Type locality
- New Zealand.
- Original description
- Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country 2 p.199
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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