Spectacled Petrel

Procellaria conspicillata Gould, 1844

Spectacled Petrel, Procellaria conspicillata, is a petrel of the Southern Ocean, breeding only on Inaccessible in the Tristan da Cunha group of the south Atlantic. Outside the breeding season it ranges across the temperate South Atlantic, reaching the coast of southern Brazil, northern Argentina and southern Africa. It is a burrow-nesting seabird and is one of the larger petrels to do so. The species was described by Gould in 1844 and belongs to the family Procellariidae in the order Procellariiformes. It was once treated as part of the white-chinned petrel.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Southern Ocean: temperate South Atlantic Ocean: Inaccessible (Tristan da Cunha group, sc Atlantic)

Nonbreeding range

temperate South Atlantic Ocean: to South American coast of s Brazil to n Argentina and to sw Africa