What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Gray-backed Storm-Petrel been recorded?

Garrodia nereis occurrence evidence comes from 18 records in 8 countries and territories, from 1915 to 2025. Most records come from Falkland Islands.

Gray-backed Storm-Petrel
Gray-backed Storm-Petrel — Photo (display-sized rendition): JJ Harrison · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesProcellariiformesHydrobatidaeGarrodia

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

18 records across 8 countries and territories, 1915–2025.

Garrodia nereis · GBIF taxon key 2481988

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: February.

7 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. 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.

Records over time

19152025

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Gray-backed Storm-Petrel has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Gray-backed Storm-Petrel. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Falkland Islands 4
New Zealand 4
Australia 3
Argentina 2
ZZ 2
Antarctica 1
South Georgia 1
South Africa 1

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Others in the family Hydrobatidae.

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European Storm-Petrel
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White-faced Storm-Petrel
White-faced Storm-Petrel
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Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
133 records
White-bellied Storm-Petrel
White-bellied Storm-Petrel
65 records
Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.