Galapagos Petrel

Pterodroma phaeopygia (Salvin, 1876)

Galapagos Petrel, Pterodroma phaeopygia, is a petrel of the Galápagos, breeding on montane Isabela, Santiago, Santa Cruz, Floreana and San Cristobal in the Pacific Ocean. Outside the breeding season it ranges to waters off western Mexico, Central America and Ecuador. It is one of the archipelago’s endemic seabirds and returns to large colonies in the highlands of some islands to breed. At sea it is hard to tell apart from the Hawaiian petrel, and for a time the two were treated as the same species.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Pacific Ocean: montane Isabela, Santiago, Santa Cruz, Floreana and San Cristobal (Galápagos)

Nonbreeding range

to waters off w Mexico, Central America and Ecuador