Calonectris leucomelas (Temminck, 1836)

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 22

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2
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scientific name	Calonectris leucomelas
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Range Common throughout Teluk Cenderawasih.

Status Palearctic migrant. Regular and common Palearctic migrant to New Guinea in the austral summer (mainly October ‒ March) and seasonally abundant in the north (Beehler & Pratt 2016, Bishop & Hacking 2020). 18 December 1962: c.35 between Biak and Yapen ( King 1979). June 1990: KDB saw modest numbers west of Biak. Wardill & Nando (2000) reported c.16,000 off the north coast of the Bird’s Head, 30 December 1999.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Procellariiformes
Family	Procellariidae
Genus	Calonectris

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