Pterodroma occulta Imber & Tennyson, 2001

Vanuatu petrel, Falla's petrel

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Pterodroma cervicalis occulta Imber & Tennyson, 2001

Conservation Status

Last record: 1927 (Murphy, 1928)

Rediscovered in 1983 (Boles et al. 1985)

Most probably only relocated, and not truly rediscovered.

Distribution

Vanuatu

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Imber, M. J. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A new petrel species (Procellariidae) from the south-west Pacific. Emu 101: 123-127.

Other references:

BirdLife International. 2016. Pterodroma cervicalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22697957A93648994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22697957A93648994.en. Downloaded on 27 November 2017.

Boles, W. E.; Bartram, K.; Clancy, G.P. 1985. First Australian specimen of the white-necked petrel. Australian Birds 19: 51-54.

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.

Murphy, R.C. 1928. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. IV. American Museum Novitates 322.

Shirihai, H. & Bretagnolle, V. 2010. First observations at sea of Vanuatu Petrel Pterodroma (cervicalis) occulta. Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. 130: 132–140.

Totterman, S. (2009). Vanuatu Petrel (Pterodroma occulta) discovered breeding on Vanua Lava, Banks Island, Vanuatu. Notornis 56(2): 57-62.

Vaughan, Peter M. et al. (2024). A review of records and research actions for the poorly known Vanuatu Petrel Pterodroma [cervicalis] occulta. Bird Conservation International 34: e9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270923000382

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