Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Cook's Petrel

Pterodroma cookii

The Cook's Petrel (Pterodroma cookii) is a 178 g ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.

Family

Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Order

Procellariiformes

Weight

178 g

Habitat

Marine

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Partial migrant

Countries recorded

8

Recorded in New Zealand, United States, Australia, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Fiji, ZZ.

Where to see it: Oeno Island (Pitcairn Islands); Tiritiri Matangi · general (New Zealand); Kaikoura · offshore · Albatross Encounter pelagic (general) (New Zealand); Miranda · main hide/Limeworks (New Zealand).

Photo: (c) David F. Belmonte, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist