Family: Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters)

Authority: Mathews, 1912

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species had shown a significant increase during the past two decades (probably owing to greater availability of carrion from expanding populations of fur seals, increased waste from commercial fishing operations, and the use of measures to reduce seabird bycatch around some breeding colonies). It no longer approaches the threshold for classification as threatened and is therefore classified as Least Concern.

Population size: 23600 mature individuals

Population trend: increasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 132,000,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Afrotropical
Realm - Neotropical
Realm - Oceanian
Realm - Antarctic
IUCN System - Terrestrial
IUCN System - Marine