Trindade Petrel

Pterodroma arminjoniana (Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869)

Trindade Petrel, Pterodroma arminjoniana, is a petrel of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, breeding on Trindade and Martim Vaz Islands off eastern Brazil and on Round Island near Mauritius. Outside the breeding season it ranges to eastern Malagasy waters, the eastern fringe of Caribbean islands, the temperate western Atlantic Gulf Stream as far north as Virginia, and waters south of Brazil. It is a seabird of oceanic islands and atolls, and nests on cliff ledges, ridges and rocky slopes. It shows dark, pale and mixed plumages.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean: Trindade and Martim Vaz Is. (e of c Brazil, tropical sw Atlantic Ocean) and Round I. (ne of Mauritius, c Mascarenes, sw Indian Ocean)

Nonbreeding range

to e Malagasy waters; e edge of Caribbean islands and temperate w Atlantic Gulf Stream n to Virginia; s to waters of s Brazil