Mottled Petrel
Pterodroma inexpectata (Forster, JR, 1844)
Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels
Mottled Petrel, Pterodroma inexpectata, is a seabird of the petrel family that breeds around New Zealand, including islets off Fiordland, Lake Hauroko, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island and the Snares Islands. Outside the breeding season it ranges through subantarctic and Antarctic waters, reaches south-eastern Australia, and moves on to the Bering Sea and the subarctic Pacific. It nests in burrows and rock crevices, and its breeding sites are now limited to smaller offshore islands rather than the mainland.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean: islets off Fiordland and in Lake Hauroko (sw South I.), in Foveaux Strait and around Stewart is., and Snares Is. (s of South I.; New Zealand)
- Nonbreeding range
- forages to subantarctic and Antarctic waters, se Australia; migrates to Bering Sea and subarctic Pacific (n Pacific Ocean)
