🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Black-winged Petrel live?

Pterodroma nigripennis has 7,507 records in 23 countries and territories, from 1894 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

AnimaliaChordataAvesProcellariiformesProcellariidaePterodroma

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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 2,187
New Zealand 1,748
Norfolk Island 1,424
United States 1,029
ZZ 440
New Caledonia 152
Tonga 105
French Polynesia 59
Fiji 51
United States Minor Outlying Islands 26
Chile 21
Mauritius 17
Cook Islands 16
American Samoa 14
Kiribati 13
Wallis & Futuna 9
Japan 6
Pitcairn 5
Tokelau 3
French Southern Territories 2
Vanuatu 2
Niue 1
Samoa 1

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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.