Fregetta maoriana Mathews, 1932:132

New Zealand storm petrel, Takahikare-raro (Māori)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:127-128):

Oceanites lineata; Bonaparte 1857, Consp. Gen. Avium 2: 200. Not Thalassidroma lineata Peale, 1848.; Pealea lineata (Peale); Godman 1907, Monograph Petrels 1: 57, pl. 16. In part.; Fregetta lineata; Stidolph 1927, Emu 26: 214. Not Thalassidroma lineata Peale, 1848.; Fregetta lineata; Oliver 1930, New Zealand Birds, 1st edition: 100. In part.; Pealeornis maoriana Mathews, 1932: Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 52: 132 – Banks Peninsula.; Cymodroma maoriana (Mathews); Mathews 1948, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 68: 157.; Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl); R. Murphy & Snyder 1952, American Mus. Novit. 1596: 12. In part.; Oceanites oceanicus exasperatus; Checklist Committee 1953, Checklist N.Z. Birds: 26. In part.; Oceanites maorianus; Oliver 1955, New Zealand Birds. 2nd edition: 100.; Oceanites oceanicus maorianus (Mathews); Marchant & Higgins 1990, HANZAB 1: 675.; Fregetta maoriana (Mathews); B. Robertson et al. 2011, Mol. Phyl. Evol. 63: 952.; Pealiornis [sic] maoriana; C. Robertson 2012, Notornis 59: 91. Misspelling.; Fregetta maorianus Mathews, 1932:132

Conservation Status

Last Record: before 1833 (1850?)

Rediscovered on 25 January 2003

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

"The puzzle of one of these taxa—the New Zealand Storm Petrel Fregetta maoriana...was largely resolved over a ten-year period as follows. Two if not all three of the specimens were taken in northern New Zealand in the 19th century (Bourne & Jouanin 2004, Bourne et al. 2004, Medway 2004). The first sightings, in 2003, were off the Coromandel Peninsula and in the Hauraki Gulf, North Island, New Zealand (Flood 2003, Saville et al. 2003, Stephenson et al. 2008a). The first live captures, in November 2005 and January 2006, in the Hauraki Gulf, confirmed the identity (Stephenson et al. 2008b), and the New Zealand Rare Birds Committee accepted F. maoriana as a valid extant species (Scofield 2007). Breeding was confirmed in 2013 on Little Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf (Fig. 1; Rayner et al. 2015, Tennyson et al. 2016). Conservation measures are underway."

(Bretagnolle et al., 2022:111)

Distribution

New Zealand

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

Many photos as well as a couple of videos can be accessed at the Macaulay Library: https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?taxonCode=nezstp1

References

Original scientific description:

Mathews, G. M. (1932). (Untitled: Description of Pealeornis maoriana). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 52: 132.

Other references:

Anonymous. (2006). New Zealand Storm-petrel - in the hand! Birding World 19: 44.

BirdLife International. (2015). Fregetta maoriana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T22728808A78977809. . Downloaded on 21 November 2015.

Bourne, W. R. P. and Jouanin, C. (2004). The origin of specimens of New Zealand Storm Petrel (Paeleornis maoriana Mathews, 1932). Notornis 51(1): 57-58.

Bourne, W. R. P., Jouanin, C. and Catto, J. V. F. (2004). The original specimens of the New Zealand Storm-petrel. Notornis 51(3): 191.

Bretagnolle, Vincent, Flood, Robert L., Gaba, Sabrina and Shirihai, Hadoram. (2022). Fregetta lineata (Peale, 1848) is a valid extant species endemic to New Caledonia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142(1): 111-130. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a6

Brooke, M. de L. (2004). Albatrosses and Petrels Across the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 128-129]

Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 127-128]

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International.

Flood, B. (2003). The New Zealand storm-petrel is not extinct. Birding World 16(11): 479-482.

Flood, B., Saville S., Southey I., Stephenson B., & Thomas B. (2004). Digital resurrection of the New Zealand Storm Petrel. Southern Bird 17: 6.

Flood, R. L. and Wilson, A. C. (2017). A New Zealand Storm Petrel Fregetta maoriana off Gau Island, Fiji, in May 2017. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 137(4): 278-286.

Gaskin, C. and Baird, K. (2005). Observations of black and white storm petrels in the Hauraki Gulf, November 2003 - June 2005: were they of New Zealand Storm Petrels? Notornis 52(4): 181-194.

Gaskin, C. P., Fitzgerald, N., Cameron E, K. and Heiss-Dunlop, S. (2011). Does the New Zealand storm-petrel (Pealeornis maoriana) breed in northern New Zealand? Notornis 58(2): 104-112.

Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.

Howell, S. N. G. and Collins, C. (2008). A possible New Zealand Storm Petrel off New Caledonia, southwest Pacific. Birding World 21(5): 207-209.

Medway, D. G. (2004). The place of collection of the original specimens of Pealeornis maoriana Mathews, 1932. Notornis 51(1): 58-59.

Millener, P. R. (1981). The Quaternary avifauna of the North Island, New Zealand. Unpublished PhD thesis. Department of Geology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 897 pp.

Miskelly, Colin M., Forsdick, Natalie J., Gill, Brian J., Palma, Ricardo L., Rawlence, Nicolas J. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2022). Amendments to the 2010 Checklist of the birds of New Zealand. Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 2. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand.

Murphy, R. C. and Snyder, J. P. (1952). The “Pealea” phenomenon and other notes on storm petrels. American Museum  Novitates 1596: 1-16.

Oliver, W. R. B. (1955). New Zealand birds. 2nd edn. Wellington: A.H. and A.W. Reed.

Rare Birds Committee. 2005. Report of Rare Birds Committee. Southern Bird 21: 5.

Matt J Rayner, Chris P Gaskin, Brent M Stephenson, Neil B Fitzgerald, Todd J Landers, B Robertson, R Paul Scofield, Stefanie MH Ismar, Michael J Imber. (2013). Brood patch and sex ratio observations indicate breeding provenance and timing in New Zealand storm petrel Fregetta maoriana. Marine Ornithology 41: 107-111.

Rayner, M. J., Gaskin, C. P., Fitzgerald, N. B., Baird, K. A., Berg, M. M., Boyle, D., Joyce, L., Landers, T. J., Loh, G. G., Maturin, S., Perrimen, L., Scofield, R. P., Simm, J., Southey, I., Taylor, G. A., Tennyson, A. J. D., Robertson, B. C., Young, M., Walle, R. & Ismar, S. M. H. (2015). Using miniaturized radiotelemetry to discover the breeding grounds of the endangered New Zealand Storm Petrel Fregetta maoriana. Ibis 157: 754-766. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12287

Robertson, Bruce C. and Stephenson, Brent M. (2008). DNA sexing of the critically endangered New Zealand storm petrel (Oceanites maorianus, or Pealeornis maoriana). Notornis 55: 209-211.

Robertson, B., Stephenson, B.M. and Goldstien, S.J. (2011). When rediscovery is not enough: Taxonomic uncertainty hinders conservation of a critically endangered bird. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 949-52. [Abstract]

Saville, S., Stephenson, B. and Southey, I. (2003). A possible sighting of an 'extinct' bird - the New Zealand storm-petrel. Birding World 16(4): 173-175.

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Stephenson, B. M.; Flood, R.; Thomas, B.; Saville, S. (2008a). Rediscovery of the New Zealand Storm Petrel (Pealeornis maoriana Mathews 1932): two sightings that revised our knowledge of storm petrels. Notornis 55(2): 77-83.

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Tennyson, Alan J. D., Rayner, M. J., Taylor, G. A., Ismar, S. M. H., Fitzgerald, N. B., Friesen, M. and Gaskin, C. P. (2016). Breeding biology of the New Zealand storm petrel. Notornis 63: 187-188.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11211519

https://www.bou.org.uk/lost-and-found-the-storm-petrel-back-from-extinction/

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