Desertas Petrel
Pterodroma desertaMathews, GM, 1934
English (US) Desertas Petrel
The Desertas Petrel (Pterodroma deserta) 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: summer breeder in burrows on Bugio (Desertas Islands, just southeast of Madeira, central Macaronesia); non-breeding range probably mostly to Azores (northwestern Macaronesia) and southeastern Brazil, more rarely to Gulf Stream off eastern North America and western EuropeRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterodroma deserta
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Desertas Petrel
- Described by
- Mathews, GM, 1934
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pterodroma mollis deserta
- Described by
- Mathews, GM, 1934
- Type locality
- Desertas Islands.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 54 p.179
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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