Pseudobulweria becki Murphy, 1928
Beck's petrel
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pseudobulweria beckii Murphy, 1928
Conservation Status
Last record: 18 May 1929
Rediscovered in 2007
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
There was an unconfirmed record of this species on 28 December 1987 "between the mainland [of N.S.W.] and Middleton Reef" (McAllan & Bruce, 1989:12).
Distribution
Pacific Ocean
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Murphy, R. C. (1928). Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. IV. American Museum Novitates, No. 322.
Other references:
Bird, Jeremy P. (2012). Targeted searches to identify nesting grounds of Beck’s petrel (Pseudobulweria becki). Notornis 59(3-4): 180-184.
BirdLife International. (2012). Pseudobulweria becki. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 July 2012.
Bretagnolle, V., Attié, C., and Pasquet, E. (1998). Cytochrome-B evidence for validity and phylogenetic relationships of Pseudobulweria and Bulweria (Procellariidae). The Auk, 188-195.
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Stattersfield, A. J. and Brooks, T. M. (2006). Going or gone: defining ‘Possibly Extinct’ species to give a truer picture of recent extinctions. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 126A: 7-24.
Flood, Robert L., Wilson, Angus C. and Zufelt, Kirk. (2017). Observations of five little-known tubenoses from Melanesia in January 2017. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 137(3): 226-236.
Flood, Robert L. and Zufelt, Kirk. (2023). Sighting of a Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki and a Vanuatu Petrel Pterodroma [cervicalis] occulta in remote Oceania, and the process of identification. Marine Ornithology 51: 79-84.
Gangloff, B., Shirihai, H., Watling, D., Cruaud, C., Couloux, A., Tillier, A., Pasquet E. and Bretagnolle, V. (2012). The complete phylogeny of Pseudobulweria, the most endangered seabird genus: systematics, species status and conservation implications. Conservation Genetics 13(1): 39-52. [Abstract]
Holmes, G. (1981). Occurrence and identification of the Tahiti Petrel in central eastern Australia. Aust. Birds 16: 24.
McAllan, Ian A. W. and Bruce, Murray D. (1989, dated 1988). The Birds of New South Wales: A Working List. Turramurra, N.S.W.: Biocon Research Group, in association with the New South Wales Bird Atlassers. 103 pp.
Palliser, T. (1987). Papua New Guinea. Report on a birding trip July-December 1987. Unpubl.
Rayner, Matt J. et al. (2019). Land and sea-based observations and first satellite tracking results support a New Ireland breeding site for the Critically Endangered Beck’s Petrel Pseudobulweria beckii. Bird Conservation International. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270919000145 [Abstract]
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
Scofield, R. Paul. (2009). Procellariiform extinctions in the Holocene: threat processes and wider ecosystem-scale implications, pp. 151-166. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Shirihai, H. (2004). Voyage of discovery. Birdwatch 143: 36-39.
Shirihai, H. (2008a). Rediscovery of Beck’s Petrel Pseudobulweria becki, and other observations of tubenoses from the Bismarck archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 128(1): 3-16.
Shirihai, H. (2008b). Tubenoses at the Bismarck Archipelago: Surveying at sea populations of the Beck’s Petrel; in search of the Fiji-like Petrel - Expedition # 3.
THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS OF OCEANIA https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/RL-2017-001.pdf
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/becks-petrel-2012.html#cr