White-bellied Storm Petrel

Taxonomy

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Oceanitidae

Genus

Fregetta

eBird Code

wbspet1

Subspecies (4)

• Fregetta grallaria grallaria

  breeds Roach Island in Lord Howe group (east of Australia) and Kermadec islands (northeast of New Zealand); ranges to tropical eastern Pacific

• Fregetta grallaria leucogaster

  breeds Tristan da Cunha, Gough (Atlantic), Amsterdam, and St. Paul islands (Indian Ocean); ranges to temperate and subtropical South Atlantic and soutwestern Indian oceans

• Fregetta grallaria segethi

  breeds San Felix and San Ambrosio (Easter Islands) and Juan Fernández Islands (off Chile); ranges tropical and subtropical pelagic waters west of Humboldt Current (in southeastern Pacific Ocean)

• Fregetta grallaria titan

  Rapa Island (Austral Islands); ranges to tropical east-central Pacific Ocean