Great-winged Petrel

Pterodroma macroptera (Smith, A, 1840)

Great-winged Petrel, Pterodroma macroptera, breeds on islands in the Southern Ocean from Tristan da Cunha and Gough to the Kerguelen Islands and off southern Australia, and it ranges in the non-breeding season through the subtropical to temperate South Atlantic and South Indian oceans to waters off southern Africa and western Australia. It is a petrel of the family Procellariidae. A dark brown seabird, it has a black bill with a variable white area at the base, and its all-dark underwing helps distinguish it from similar shearwaters.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Southern Ocean: subtropical to temperate is. from Tristan da Cunha and Gough (sc Atlantic Ocean) to Kerguelen Is. (se Indian Ocean) and islets off sw Australia

Nonbreeding range

subtropical to temperate South Atlantic and South Indian oceans to s African and w Australian waters