New Zealand Petrels

NEW ZEALAND PETRELS

Group Species Common name Weight (or subspecies) (grams) Shearwaters Puffinus carneipes Flesh-footed shearwater 600 Puffinus pacificus Wedge-tailed shearwater 450 Puffinus bulleri Buller’s shearwater 425 Puffinus griseus Sooty shearwater 800 Puffinus gavia Fluttering shearwater 300 Puffinus huttoni Hutton’s shearwater 350 Puffinus kermadecensis Kermadec little shearwater ~200 Puffinus haurakiensis North Island little shearwater ~200 Puffinus elegans Subantarctic little shearwater ~200 Diving petrels Pelecanoides urinatrix Northern diving petrel 130 Pelecanoides exsul Subantarctic diving petrel ~130 Pelecanoides georgicus South Georgian diving petrel 120 Procellaria petrels Procellaria cinerea Grey petrel 1000 Procellaria parkinsoni Black petrel 700 Procellaria westlandica Westland petrel 1100 Procellaria aequinoctialis White-chinned petrel 1250 Fulmarine petrels Daption capense australe Snares Cape pigeon 450 Macronectes halli Northern giant petrel 4500 Prions Pachyptila turtur Fairy prion 125 Pachyptila crassirostris crassirostris Fulmar prion 140 Pachyptila crassirostris pyramidalis Chatham fulmar prion ~140 Pachyptila desolata Antarctic prion 150 Pachyptila vittata Broad-billed prion 200 Gadfly petrels Pterodroma pycrofti Pycrofts petrel 160 Pterodroma cookii Cook’s petrel 200 Pterodroma nigripennis Black-winged petrel 175 Pterodroma axillaris Chatham petrel 200

Pterodroma inexpectata Mottled petrel 325 Pterodroma cervicalis White-naped petrel 450 Pterodroma neglecta Kermadec petrel 500 Pterodroma macroptera gouldi Grey-faced petrel 550 Pterodoma magentae Taiko 475 Pterodroma lessonii White-headed petrel 600 Pterodroma mollis Soft-plumaged petrel 300 Storm petrels Oceanites maorianus New Zealand storm petrel Not known (status to be confirmed) Garrodia nereis Grey-backed storm petrel 35 Pelagodroma marina maoriana New Zealand white-faced 45 storm petrel Pelagodroma marina albiclunis Kermadec storm petrel ~45 Fregetta tropica Black-bellied storm petrel 55 Fregetta grallaria White-bellied storm petrel 50

Sources: Species list from Kerry-Jayne Wilson, Flight of the huia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004, pp. 345–346; and bird weights from Barrie Heather and Hugh Robertson, The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Auckland: Viking, 2000, pp. 186–224.