Cook's Petrel

When to see the Cook's Petrel

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Cook's Petrel

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Fiji.

About the Cook's Petrel

Cook's petrel or tītī (Māori), blue-footed petrel, is a Procellariiform seabird endemic to New Zealand. It is a member of the gadfly petrels and part of the subgenus Cookilaria Bonaparte, 1856, which includes the very similar Stejneger's petrel.

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Easily confused with

Barau's PetrelPterodroma barauiBarau's petrel is around 40 cm long, and has white undersides and forehead. Providence PetrelPterodroma solandriThe providence petrel is a large and heavy build gadfly petrel that nests in two locations in the Tasman Sea: Lord Howe Island and Philip Island. Galapagos PetrelPterodroma phaeopygiaThe Galápagos and Hawaiian petrels are very similar.