Collared Petrel

Pterodroma brevipes (Peale, 1849)

Collared Petrel, Pterodroma brevipes, is a petrel of the Pacific Ocean, breeding from Vanuatu to the Austral Islands in south-eastern Polynesia and ranging more widely into the eastern tropical Pacific when not breeding. It is a seabird in the family Procellariidae. It nests on steep, wooded slopes, using burrows or spaces among tree roots. The species has also been treated as a subspecies of Gould's petrel. A Vanuatu population was described in 2010 as Pterodroma brevipes magnificens.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Pacific Ocean: Vanuatu to Austral Is. (se Polynesia)

Nonbreeding range

to ec tropical Pacific