Species profile
Black-bellied storm petrel
Fregetta tropica
Quick answer
after breeding on Antarctic and subantarctic islands, migrates north to subtropical and tropical zones, reaching most of the Brazilian coast (Carboneras, 1992 c). The subspecies F. t. tropica, which occurs in Brazil, breeds on South Georgia, South Shetland and South Orkney Islands to the east as far as the Antipodes. It uses Brazil as a wintering area (Grantsau, 2010) and there are records for the coast of BA in January (Olmos, 2000 b) and for RS (Petry et al., 2016), where it was photographed in November 2011 (WikiAves, 2016).
- Scientific name
- Fregetta tropica
- Family
- Hydrobatidae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Genus
- Fregetta
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Hydrobatidae
- Ainley's Storm-petrel (Hydrobates cheimomnestes)
- Ainley's Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma cheimomnestes)
- ashy storm-petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa)
- Ashy Storm-petrel (Hydrobates homochroa)
- black storm-petrel (Oceanodroma melania)
- Black Storm-petrel (Hydrobates melania)
- Cape Verde Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma jabejabe)
- European Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)