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Alternative name: White-winged Petrel

Photo by swiss7
Wollongong, Australia

Pterodroma leucoptera

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

South America, Asia, Australasia
South America: Ecuador, Chile
Asia: Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sulawesi
Australasia: Papua New Guinea, Australia: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Polynesia, Melanesia, Samoa Islands, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• P. l. leucoptera:

• Breeds Cabbage Tree Island (off eastern Australia); ranges southern Pacific Ocean

• P. l. caledonica:

• New Caledonia

• P. l. brevipes:

• Fiji and Cook Islands

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID
• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages