Tag: Pterodroma hasitata

RESULTS OF SEARCH FOR NESTING BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS (Pterodroma hasitata) IN DOMININCA

Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) Science Article 4 abstract Evidence shows the Black-capped Petrel was abundant in Dominica during the last half of the 19th century (Bent 1922, Lawrence 1878). Studies done in the early 20th century continued to show the bird was seen ‘not infrequently’ off the coast of Dominica in the vicinity of Roseau […]

A Black-capped Petrel Specimen from Florida

Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) Science Article 2 abstract The Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) is a rare bird anywhere in North America (Palmer, 1962). and may exist only in small numbers throughout the world because of habitat alteration Glen E. Woolfenden, Florida Field Naturalist Vol. 2 Spring 1974 Download article download full text (pdf)

A RE-EVALUATION OF THE STATUS OF THE ENDANGEREDBLACK-CAPPED PETREL, PTERODROMA HAS/TATA, IN CUBA

Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) Science Article 1 abstract The Black-capped Petrel, Pterodroma hasitata, is the only extant gadfly petrel known to breed in the West Indies region. Now seriously threatened or endangered, breeding populations are known on only one of the five historically documented breeding islands David S. Lee & Nicasio Vina, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 4:99-101 […]

DISCOVERY OF BREEDING BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS ON HISPANIOLA

Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) Science Article 3 abstract The status of the Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata), which formerly bred on several West Indian islands, has been obscure since late in the nineteenth century, when the location of the diminishing breeding colonies was lost to science DAVID B. WINGATE, The Auk, 81: 147-159. April, 1964 Download […]

Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata)

[order] PROCELLARIIFORMES | [family] Procellariidae | [latin] Pterodroma hasitata | [authority] Kuhl, 1820 | [UK] Black-capped Petrel | [FR] Petrel diablotin | [DE] Teufels-Sturmvogel | [ES] Petrel Antillano | [NL] Zwartkapstormvogel Subspecies Monotypic species Genus Genus Pterodroma, Pseudobulweria and Aphrodroma are also knwon as the Gadfly Petrels. They vary in size from rather small birds […]