10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
The first to cruise past in a hurry were the stunning Cook’s Petrels. The final large petrel species is another gadfly petrel, albeit a much larger one than the Cook’s Petrel. It is also known as the Great-winged Petrel outside of new Zealand, a name that also suits the species.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2011
It was long expected that the fossil record would show extinct members of the genus in the islands between New Zealand/New Caledonia and the Society Islands (places like Tonga, Fiji, the Cook Islands) that had gone extinct before Europeans arrived, but no such fossils have been found.
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