Scaled petrel

This species is highly pelagic, rarely approaching land, except to nest and rear young. The Mottled Petrel feeds on mostly fish and squid, with some crustaceans taken. It is a transequatorial migrant, breeding in New Zealand and some of the lesser islands, then moving to the Bering Sea, concentrating in the Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

The Scaled petrel is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.

Scaled Petrel in Oregon. Condor 63:417. Warham, J., B.R. Keeley and G.J. Wilson. 1977. Breeding of the Mottled Petrel. Auk 94:1-17. Watson, G.E., J.P. Angle, P.C. Harper, M.A. Bridge, R.P. Schlatter, W.L.N. Tickell, J.C. Boyd and M.M. Boyd. 1971. Birds of the Antarctic and Subantarc- tic. Folio 14, Antarctic Map Folio Ser. Am. Geograph. Union, New York. Wiens, J.A., D. Heinemann and W. Hoffman. 1978. More