Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Migrant

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Between July and August (Castro & Phillips 1996) and between October and December is most common seen it (Harris 1973) on Genovesa, Española, Santiago, Floreana, San Cristóbal. Also there are few records on Santa Cruz, Pinta and Bartolomé (Wiedenfeld 2006). In 2015, Noah Perlut saw 15 individuals.

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• Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
• Snodgrass, R.E. Heller, E. (1904) Birds of the Gálapagos Archipelago. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898 - 1899, XVI, birds. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 5: 231-372.
• Salvin, O. (1876) On the avifauna of the Galápagos Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 9: 447-510.
• Bowman, R.I. (1960) Report on Biological Reconnaissance of the Galapagos Islands during 1957. UNESCO, Paris, 1-65.
• Swarth, H.S. (1931) The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 18: 1-299.
• Hickin, N. (1979) Animal life of the Galapagos. Ferundune Books, Faringdon, U.K., 236 pp.
• IUCN (2015) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.
• Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.