MacGillivray's Prion

When to see the MacGillivray's Prion

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 3 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the MacGillivray's Prion

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 4 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 Australia, GS, New Zealand, Uruguay.

About the MacGillivray's Prion

MacGillivray's prion is a species of small petrel in the Southern Ocean. It is found on Roche Quille, off Saint Paul Island and on Gough Island in the Tristan da Cunha group, south-central Atlantic Ocean. It was formerly present on Amsterdam Island in the central South Indian Ocean. The population on Saint Paul Island has been increasing since the 1990s eradication of introduced rats and rabbits, but is still likely smaller than the original size.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Salvin's PrionPachyptila salviniSalvin's prion is a small 29 cm (11 in) petrel with grey and white plumage, and a blue bill. Fulmar PrionPachyptila crassirostrisThe fulmar prion is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae, found in the southern oceans. Broad-billed PrionPachyptila vittataThe broad-billed prion has the usual prion colours: blue-grey upperparts, white underparts, and the ever present dark "M" across its back and wings.