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Status of the Westland Petrel (Procellaria westlandica) off South America

  • Publication Type

    Journal Article

  • Publication Year

    2000

  • Author(s)

    E.S. Brinkley; S.N.G. Howell; M.P. Force; L.B. Spear; D.C. Ainley

  • Journal Name

    Notornis

  • Volume, Issue

    47, 4

  • Pagination

    179-183

  • Article Type

    Paper

Keywords

distribution; moult; Procellaria westlandica); South America; Westland Petrel


Status of the Westland Petrel (Procellaria westlandica) off South America

Notornis, 47 (4), 179-183

E.S. Brinkley; S.N.G. Howell; M.P. Force; L.B. Spear; D.C. Ainley (2000)

Article Type: Paper

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The presence of small numbers of Westland petrels (Procellaria westlandica) off the east and west coasts of South America is a relatively recent discovery. Evidence for the presence of the species in those seas has, however, been found to extend back at least as far as 1913, with the re-identification of a specimen in the American Museum of Natural History collection as P. westlandica. Preliminary comments are given on the condition of plumage of Westland petrels observed in South American waters.