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Bonin Petrel

Pterodroma hypoleuca(Salvin, O, 1888)

English (US) Bonin Petrel

The Bonin Petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca) 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 Volcano, Bonin, and western Hawaiian islands; ranges to Sakhalin and central JapanRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Pterodroma hypoleuca
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Bonin Petrel
Described by
(Salvin, O, 1888)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Oestrelata hypoleuca
Described by
(Salvin, O, 1888)
Type locality
north Pacific Ocean, 'Krusenstern Islands,' mythical islands designated by the collector instead of one of the islands in the Leeward Hawaiian Chain; cf. Murphy, 1951, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1512, p. 17.
Original description
Ibis ser.5, vol.6, no.23 p.359

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

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