Mottled Petrel
Pterodroma inexpectata(Forster, JR, 1844)
English (US) Mottled Petrel
The Mottled Petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) 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 islets off Fiordland and in Lake Hauroko (southwestern South Island), in Foveaux Strait and around Stewart island, and Snares Islands (New Zealand); forages to subantarctic and Antarctic waters, and southeastern Australia; migrates to Bering SeaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterodroma inexpectata
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Mottled Petrel
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1844)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Procellaria inexpectata
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1844)
- Type locality
- in oceano antarctico cum antecedente (Antarctic Ocean.)
- Original description
- Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto, collegit, observavit et delineavit (etc.) p.204
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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