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The magenta petrel (Pterodroma magentae), or Chatham Island tāiko, is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, Pterodroma.Found exclusively on Chatham Island, New Zealand, it is one of the rarest birds in the world, believed to be extinct for over 100 years before its rediscovery in the 1970s.
This is a list of the birds that belong to the group gadfly petrels.They are all from the genus Pterodroma and belong to the family Procellariidae.. Pterodroma macroptera, great-winged petrel, breeds and ranges on islands of the southern oceans [1]
Magenta petrel, Pterodroma magentae – south Pacific Ocean, but poorly known; Murphy's petrel, Pterodroma ultima – east and central Pacific Ocean; Soft-plumaged petrel, Pterodroma mollis – Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and margins of western Pacific Ocean; Zino's petrel or Madeira petrel, Pterodroma madeira – east Atlantic Ocean
The word petrel (first recorded in that spelling 1703) comes from earlier (ca. 1670) pitteral; the English explorer William Dampier wrote the bird was so called from its way of flying with its feet just skimming the surface of the water, recalling Saint Peter's walk on the sea of Galilee (Matthew xiv.28); if so, it likely was formed in English as a diminutive of Peter (< Old French: Peterelle ...
In general, petrels were considered to be "soul birds", representing the souls of drowned sailors, and it was considered unlucky to touch them. [78] In the Russian language, many petrel species from the Hydrobatidae and Procellariidae families of the order Procellariiformes are known as burevestnik, which literally means 'the announcer of the ...
Pterodroma is a genus of seabirds in the bird family Procellariidae, part of the Gadfly petrel group. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pterodroma . Pages in category "Pterodroma"
New Zealand storm petrel; Guadalupe storm petrel (possibly extinct) MacGillivray's prion; Waved albatross; Mascarene petrel; Beck's petrel; Fiji petrel; Jamaican petrel (possibly extinct) Magenta petrel; Galápagos petrel; Townsend's shearwater; Bryan's shearwater; Rapa shearwater; Newell's shearwater; Balearic shearwater
Based on Austin (1996), Bretagnolle et al. (1998), Nunn & Stanley (1998) and Brooke (2004), several changes have been made from the more traditional taxonomy. The two species in the genus Bulweria are no longer considered close to the rest of the gadfly petrels; several more gadfly petrels are removed from Pterodroma and placed in Pseudobulweria (allied to the shearwaters), and the Kerguelen ...