🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Gray-backed Storm-Petrel live?

Garrodia nereis has 10,985 records in 25 countries and territories, from 1915 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataAvesProcellariiformesHydrobatidaeGarrodia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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
Australia 4,061
New Zealand 2,596
Falkland Islands 799
ZZ 505
Argentina 276
Portugal 240
Spain 211
South Georgia 195
Cabo Verde 186
South Africa 183
France 124
French Southern Territories 84
United Kingdom 74
Saint Helena 47
Chile 44
Western Sahara 43
Antarctica 32
Netherlands 27
Guernsey 18
Senegal 12
Namibia 8
Belgium 5
Heard & McDonald Islands 5
Uruguay 2
Zambia 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
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
19,325 records
White-bellied Storm-Petrel
5,077 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.