Bermuda Petrel

When to see the Bermuda Petrel

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bermuda Petrel

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Portugal, Canada.

About the Bermuda Petrel

The Bermuda petrel is a gadfly petrel. Commonly known in Bermuda as the cahow, a name derived from its eerie cries, this nocturnal ground-nesting seabird is the national bird of Bermuda and is pictured on Bermudian currency. Bermuda petrels are the second rarest seabird on the planet. They have medium-sized bodies and long wings, a greyish-black crown and collar, dark grey upper-wings and tail, white upper-tail coverts and white under-wings edged with black, and the underparts are completely white.

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Easily confused with

White-necked PetrelPterodroma cervicalisThis species resembles the Vanuatu petrel, P. occulta, but is slightly larger at 43 cm (17 in) in length, 95–105 cm (37–41 in) in wing span and 380–545 g (13.4–19.2 oz) in weight. Cape Verde PetrelPterodroma feaeThis long-winged petrel is 33–36 cm in length with an 86–94 cm wingspan. Trindade PetrelPterodroma arminjonianaThe Trindade petrel, also known as the Round island petrel, is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels.

Watch the Bermuda Petrel on live cams

RETURNS JANUARY

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