Black-bellied Storm Petrel

Fregetta tropica

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Oceanitidae
Genus
Fregetta
eBird Code
bbspet1

Subspecies (2)

  • Fregetta tropica melanoleuca

    breeds Tristan da Cunha and (perhaps) Gough islands; ranges north to tropics

  • Fregetta tropica tropica

    breeds circumpolar subantarctic islands from South Georgia, Antarctic Peninsula, Bouvetoya, Prince Edward, Crozet, Kerguelen (Indian), Bounty, Antipodes, and Auckland islands (New Zealand); ranges southern oceans mostly south of Equator southward to Antarctic Convergence

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.