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Pterodroma sandwichensis

Hawaiian Petrel

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 405108ITIS 562561key itis:562561
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2026-08-05: worms_id 405108 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted) 2026-08-05: worms_id 405108 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); itis:202225 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:562561 (Pterodroma sandwichensis)

calcofi:seabirds

The Hawaiian petrel or ʻuaʻu is a large, dark grey-brown and white petrel that is endemic to Hawaiʻi.W CalCOFI holds 6 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1994 and 2019.R

6
observations
6
records
6
sampling events
1994–2019
years
1
datasets
43 cm
max length
Photograph of Pterodroma sandwichensis
Photo · Ken Chamberlain · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • 6 obs6 events1994–2019
    name used: Pterodroma phaeopygia sandwichensis Dark-Rumped Petrel · code DRPE synonym re-keyed
    name used: Pterodroma sandwichensis Hawaiian Petrel · code HAPE

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:562561%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 43 cm max
Hawaiian Petrel43 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Pterodroma
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird

WikidataiNaturalistGBIFeBird

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗