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Where does the Black-bellied Storm-Petrel live?

Fregetta tropica has 19,325 records in 39 countries and territories, from 1853 to 2026. Most records come from Antarctica.

Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel β€” Maans Booysen, Birding Weto / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesProcellariiformesHydrobatidaeFregetta

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Antarctica 5,241
New Zealand 2,925
South Georgia 2,913
Australia 2,386
ZZ 2,048
Chile 496
South Africa 411
Falkland Islands 373
French Southern Territories 335
Argentina 192
Heard & McDonald Islands 154
Saint Helena 98
Bouvet Island 22
Spain 20
Papua New Guinea 16
United States 12
Oman 8
Fiji 6
Uruguay 6
Norfolk Island 5
RΓ©union 4
Brazil 3
Kenya 3
New Caledonia 3
Portugal 3
Solomon Islands 3
Mozambique 2
Seychelles 2
United Kingdom 1
French Guiana 1
India 1
British Indian Ocean Territory 1
Comoros 1
Sri Lanka 1
Maldives 1
Namibia 1
Peru 1
Tonga 1
Tanzania 1

Related animals

Others in the family Hydrobatidae.

Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
218,815 records
Leach's
121,547 records
European Storm-Petrel
117,597 records
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
36,666 records
White-faced Storm-Petrel
30,649 records
Gray-backed Storm-Petrel
10,985 records
White-bellied Storm-Petrel
5,077 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.