Weichgefiederter Sturmvogel

Bestimmung

The soft-plumaged petrel is a medium-sized petrel. Its plumage is dark grey and white, and its wings are narrow and with a pointed tail distinct in flight. It has a dark grey head with prominent white feathers on the cheeks and throat. There is a white speckling on forehead along with a prominent dark eye patch. Its underside is mostly white, which turned dark grey at underwings. The bill is black and about 25–32 mm long and has a sharp hook. Its legs are pink with black on the outer webs and toes. There is also the dark morph, which is another variation of the petrel.<p>Both sexes are noisy, making medium-pitched moans and shrill squeaks.

Taxonomie

Fea's petrel (P. feae), Desertas petrel (P. desertae) and Zino's petrel (P. madeira) of the North Atlantic were formerly treated as subspecies of this bird.

Wissenschaftlicher Name

Pterodroma mollis

Autorität

(Gould, 1844)

Ordnung

Procellariiformes

Familie

Sturmvögel (Procellariidae)

Gattung

Pterodroma

Verbreitung und Lebensraum

It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere, nesting on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Macquarie Island, and on the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand. Small numbers breed in the Maatsuyker Island Group of southern Tasmania. It disperses outside the breeding season, reaching eastern South America north to Brazil, southern Africa and Australia. It has occurred as a vagrant in Israel, Norway and Jordan.

Brutgebiet

SO : subtropical to subantarctic islands of South Indian and South Atlantic oceans, from Tristan da Cunha and Gough (sc Atlantic) to Maatsuyker I. (s of Tasmania), Macquarie (far se of Australia) and Antipodes (se of Stewart I., New Zealand)

Überwinterungsgebiet

to waters of s Australasia, s Africa, s of Madagascar and se South America

Zugverhalten

Complete migrants

Schutzstatus

Bestandstrend

stable