New Caledonian storm petrel species discovered and classified as “Critically Endangered”

New Caledonian storm petrel species discovered and classified as “Critically Endangered”

The New Caledonian storm petrel (Fregetta lineata), based on numbers spotted at sea off Australia and New Caledonia, has a population of 100-1,000 pairs and is virtually certainly globally threatened. Storm petrels are a group of roughly 20 seabirds belonging to the Hydrobatidae family (sometimes known as Oceanitidae), which is part of the Procellariiformes order. […]

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