White-necked Petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis)

White-necked Petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis), East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

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WHITE-NECKED PETREL FACTS

distribution map showing range of Pterodroma cervicalis in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Classification

Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Procellariidae
Genus:	Pterodroma
Species:	cervicalis
Common Name:	White-necked Petrel

Relatives in same Genus
  Cooks Petrel (P. cookii)
  Mottled Petrel (P. inexpectata)
  Great-winged Petrel (P. macroptera)
  Kermadec Petrel (P. neglecta)
  Providence Petrel (P. solandri)