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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a9 Scott Brooks<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a9 Daniel L. Webster \/ Cascadia Research Collective<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Birdfinding.info <\/em><\/strong>\u21d2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Locally common in the breeding season, November to June, around its remote mid-oceanic nesting grounds, and can be seen in small numbers more accessibly around Norfolk Island.\u00a0 During this period, it has been found uncommonly on pelagic trips in the North Cape waters of New Zealand, and offshore from Southport, Queensland, and more rarely southward.\u00a0 Uncommon in Hawaiian waters, mostly April-May and October to December, when it is sometimes seen on pelagic trips out of Kailua-Kona.\u00a0 In Japanese waters, it is seen uncommonly around the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, mostly from May to November.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Pterodroma cervicalis<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Family: Procellariidae<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Breeds in the Kermadec and Norfolk Islands and disperses widely across tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a9 Xeno-Canto 2021<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Breeding.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Breeds from November to June, nesting colonially in burrows on grassy hillsides.<\/p> The vast majority of the world\u2019s population (~50,000 pairs) nests on Macauley Island in the Kermadecs, in several colonies: \u201cin Sandy Bay, on the slopes above Quadrat Gully, on the gully slopes and floor of Access Gully, on the plateau near Grand Canyon, in Jim\u2019s Gully, and on the upper slopes of Mt. Hazard\u201d (BirdLife International 2018).<\/p> There is a second, much smaller colony on Phillip Island near Norfolk Island.\u00a0 There is some evidence that it much also be recolonizing Raoul Island (in the Kermadecs)\u2014where it bred historically until the early 1900s.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Nonbreeding.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 From April to November, much of the population winters in the western and central North Pacific, from Japanese offshore waters east to Hawaii and south into Micronesia and northern Polynesia.\u00a0 It has been recorded north into the Sea of Okhotsk (northern Sakhalin).<\/p> Much smaller numbers winter in the eastern North Pacific to Mexican offshore waters, where they are greatly outnumbered by the confusingly similar Juan Fern\u00e1ndez Petrel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p> Some portion of the population\u2014presumably mostly first-year birds\u2014remains in the nonbreeding range year-round.<\/p> There is an exceptional record of a vagrant photographed in inshore waters of the Gulf of Siam (November 22, 2019).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Bang Tabun Bay, Phetchaburi, Thailand; November 22, 2019.) \u00a0\u00a9 Panom Yingpaiboonsukh<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Identification<\/strong><\/span><\/p> A large, proportionately long-tailed and long-winged gadfly petrel with gray upperparts, nearly all-white underparts, a black helmet, and bold white nape-collar.<\/p> The head is strongly patterned, with black around the eyes, cheeks, and crown, and a white forehead, throat, and collar.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Southport, Queensland, Australia; March 24, 2018.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Andrew Naumann<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (South Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles east-northeast of North Island, New Zealand; March 17, 2019.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Hiroyuki & Shoko Tanoi<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t The upperparts are mostly dark-gray with paler-gray scaling on the back and shoulders.\u00a0 The uppersides of the wings and lower back are mostly blackish.\u00a0 The rump and tail are usually dark or medium gray (darker than the upper back, slightly paler than the lower back), rarely with a few whitish markings on the uppertail coverts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from North Cape, North Island, New Zealand; March 2011.) \u00a0\u00a9 Detlef Davies<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii; December 16, 2009.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Daniel L. Webster \/ Cascadia Research Collective<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Crowdy Head, New South Wales, Australia; January 24, 2019.) \u00a0\u00a9 Liam Murphy<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Southport, Queensland, Australia; February 3, 2010.) \u00a0\u00a9 Tom Tarrant<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from South West Rocks, New South Wales, Australia; April 3, 2021.) \u00a0\u00a9 Marie Lister<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii; November 3, 2011.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Daniel L. Webster \/ Cascadia Research Collective<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel in heavily worn plumage.\u00a0 (Offshore from Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; March 23, 2013.) \u00a0\u00a9 Rob Hynson<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel in heavily worn plumage.\u00a0 (Ogasawara Islands, Japan; July 5, 2018.) \u00a0\u00a9 Yann Muzika<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t The underparts are almost entirely white, with narrow black borders on the tail, wingtips, and leading and trailing edges of the wings, and a partial black carpal bar extending inward from the wrist.\u00a0 Typically shows a pronounced dark-gray partial collar on the sides of the chest.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (South Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles east-northeast of North Island, New Zealand; March 17, 2019.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Hiroyuki & Shoko Tanoi<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Southport, Queensland, Australia; March 24, 2018.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Andrew Naumann<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Kermadec Islands, New Zealand; March 2021.) \u00a0\u00a9 Scott Brooks<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Brittania Seamount, offshore from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia; March 29, 2020.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Elliott Leach<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; March 2008.) \u00a0\u00a9 Brook Whylie<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from South West Rocks, New South Wales, Australia; April 3, 2021.) \u00a0\u00a9 Marie Lister<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii; December 16, 2009.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Daniel L. Webster \/ Cascadia Research Collective<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Tutukaka, North Island, New Zealand; February 20, 2021.) \u00a0\u00a9 Scott Brooks<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel.\u00a0 (Offshore from Kaikoura, South Island, New Zealand; January 5, 2018.) \u00a0\u00a9 Encounter Kaikoura<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t White-necked Petrel in heavily worn plumage.\u00a0 (Offshore from Muko-jima, Ogasawara Islands, Japan; September 7, 2014.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Hiroyuki Tanoi<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/birdfinding.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/WhiteneckedPetrel20-768x510.jpg\")
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