Pterodroma inexpectata is endemic to
New Zealand. It breeds on islands off Fiordland, the Solander Islands, Foveaux Strait islands, islands around Stewart Island (including Titi islands, Codfish, Big South Cape Islands, and islets in Port Pegasus) and the Snares Islands (Marchant and Higgins 1990, Heather and Robertson 1997)
. It once bred throughout the North and South Islands, and possibly the Chatham, Bounty, Antipodes and Auckland Islands (Marchant and Higgins 1990, Heather and Robertson 1997)
. There are c.10,000+ pairs on each of Big South Cape and Main Islands (Heather and Robertson 1997)
, and the Codfish population was estimated at 300,000-400,000 pairs in 1996 (Taylor 2000)
. It migrates to the north Pacific as far as the subarctic front and Bering Sea and in summer can range as far south as the pack ice (Marchant and Higgins 1990, Heather and Robertson 1997)
.
Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2014.
Pterodroma inexpectata. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org>
