Soft-plumaged Petrel

Pterodroma mollis (Gould, 1844)

Soft-plumaged Petrel, Pterodroma mollis, is a petrel of the Southern Ocean, breeding on subtropical to subantarctic islands in the South Indian and South Atlantic oceans from Tristan da Cunha and Gough to Maatsuyker Island, Macquarie Island and the Antipodes. Outside the breeding season it ranges to waters off southern Australasia, southern Africa, south of Madagascar and south-eastern South America. It is a seabird in the family Procellariidae. The species was described by Gould in 1844.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Southern Ocean: subtropical to subantarctic islands of South Indian and South Atlantic oceans, from Tristan da Cunha and Gough (sc Atlantic) to Maatsuyker I. (s of Tasmania), Macquarie (far se of Australia) and Antipodes (se of Stewart I., New Zealand)

Nonbreeding range

to waters of s Australasia, s Africa, s of Madagascar and se South America