COLLARED PETREL Pterodroma brevipes

More sedentary in its habits than Gould's, but breeding on a larger number of islands in the Pacific, from the Solomons to Fiji. It occurs in light, dark and intermediate forms, although the darkest birds have recently been described as a seperate species. Several museum species, labelled as dark-phase Collared, are such birds (see next taxon).


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