Bulwer's Petrel

Bulweria bulwerii (Jardine & Selby, 1828)

Bulwer's Petrel, Bulweria bulwerii, breeds across tropical ocean islands from the Azores and Madeira group to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Mauritius, southern China, Japan, Hawaii, Kiribati and the Marquesas. Outside the breeding season it ranges west and south in the Atlantic, reaches west Africa, and spreads through the tropical Indian Ocean, the Indonesian Archipelago, New Guinea, northern Australia and the southern and eastern tropical Pacific. It is a petrel in the Procellariidae. First described by Jardine and Selby in 1828, it nests in burrows, vegetation, cliff caves and crevices, and under debris or driftwood.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Tropical Ocean: Ilheu da Vila (Azores), Porto Santo and Desertas (Madeira group), Salvage (n of Canary Is.), Canary Is., Raso and Ilheu de Cima (n, s Cape Verde is.; Macaronesia, off w Africa), Round I. (ne of Mauritius, c Mascarenes, sw Indian Ocean), islands off s China coast, Ogasawara Is. (=Bonin, s of Japan), Northwestern and main Hawaiian is. and Johnson Atoll (sw of Hawaii), Kiribati and Marquesas Is. (e Polynesia)

Nonbreeding range

to w and s in Atlantic, reaching w Africa; widely in tropical Indian Ocean s to Mascarenes and through Indonesian Arch. to New Guinea and n Australia, to s and ec tropical Pacific