White-necked Petrel

Pterodroma cervicalis (Salvin, 1891)

White-necked Petrel, Pterodroma cervicalis, is a seabird in the family Procellariidae that breeds in the Pacific Ocean at Phillip Island south of Norfolk Island and at Macauley Island in the Kermadec Islands near New Zealand’s North Island. Outside the breeding season it ranges across south-eastern Australia and the north-western, north-central and south-eastern Pacific, reaching south-eastern Japan and the east-central Pacific. It was described by Salvin in 1891. It is also known as the white-naped petrel.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Pacific Ocean: Phillip I. (s of Norfolk Is., far e of Australia) and Macauley I. (Kermadec Is., ne of North I., New Zealand)

Nonbreeding range

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