Grey petrel  (Procellaria cinerea)

Range

A circumpolar sub-Antarctic species (6) that breeds on islands in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (7). These include Gough Island and the Tristan da Cunha group (St Helena, UK), Prince Edward and Marion islands (South Africa), Crozet, Kerguelen and Amsterdam islands (French Southern Territories), and Campbell and the Antipodes islands (New Zealand) (3). The bird was previously driven to extinction on Macquarie Island (Australia) but has recently recolonised (3). Gough and Antipodes are believed to support the bulk of the current population (3).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

The grey petrel is pelagic, returning to nesting islands and coastal cliffs only to breed (1) (3).

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