New Caledonian Storm Petrel

Fregetta lineata (Peale, 1848)

New Caledonian Storm Petrel, Fregetta lineata, is a bird of the Pacific Ocean, breeding in New Caledonia and ranging outside the breeding season to seas off south-eastern Australia, Samoa and the Marquesas Islands. It belongs to the family Oceanitidae. It is an endemic breeder to New Caledonia, and records at sea also come from the east coast of Australia. A juvenile was found on the mainland shore of New Caledonia in 2014, the only definite land record and a sign of a likely breeding site nearby. It was described by Peale in 1848.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Oceanitidae — Austral Storm Petrels

Breeding range

Pacific Ocean: New Caledonia

Nonbreeding range

to seas off se Australia, Samoa and the Marquesas Is. (w, e Polynesia)