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Cook's petrel

Pterodroma cookii (G. R. Gray, 1843)

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The cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii) is a species in the family Procellariidae, order Procellariiformes. Recorded adults weigh 172.5 g to 194 g. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable.

Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii)
Photo: Aviceda at English Wikipedia ( Original text: Tom ( talk ) ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the cook's petrel

Weight
172.5 g – 194 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Wingspan
66 cm – 82 cmsrc for Wingspan
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Aquatic predatorsrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
marinesrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
1src for Young per litter or clutch
Litters or clutches a year
1src for Litters or clutches a year
Lifestyle
Aerialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Partialsrc for Migration
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the cook's petrel?

COOK'S PETREL · WINGSPAN 82 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 82 cm, the recorded maximum wingspan of the cook's petrel is about 48% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Photos of the cook's petrel

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Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii)
M Rutherford · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii)
Aviceda at English Wikipedia ( Original text: Tom ( talk ) ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where does the cook's petrel live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The cook's petrel is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the cook's petrel?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii) or tītī (Māori), blue-footed petrel, is a Procellariiform seabird endemic to New Zealand. It is a member of the gadfly petrels and part of the subgenus Cookilaria Bonaparte, 1856, which includes the very similar Stejneger's petrel.

From the Wikipedia article “Cook's petrel” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cook%27s_petrel&oldid=1374764771), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the cook's petrel endangered?

The cook's petrel is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Vulnerable species. What the categories mean.

How is the cook's petrel classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderProcellariiformes
  5. familyProcellariidae
  6. genusPterodroma
  7. SpeciesPterodroma cookii (G. R. Gray, 1843)

Synonyms Procellaria cookii, Pterodroma cooki, Pterodroma cookii orientalis

Other names and names in other languages (42)
  • Cook’s petrelEnglish
  • Cook’s petrelEnglish
  • TitiEnglish
  • نوء كوكArabic
  • بترل كوكArabic
  • petrell de CookCatalan
  • buřňák CookůvCzech
  • Grå PetrelDanish
  • CooksturmvogelGerman
  • Cook-SturmvogelGerman
  • kuka petreloEsperanto
  • Petrel de CookSpanish
  • Fardela blanca de CookSpanish
  • Fardela blanca de Más a TierraSpanish
  • Fardela de CookSpanish
  • hele-tormilindEstonian
  • pikkuviistäjäFinnish
  • Pétrel de CookFrench
  • Diablotin de CookFrench
  • cookov zovojCroatian
  • maori hojszaHungarian
  • Petrello di CookItalian
  • ハジロシロハラミズナギドリJapanese
  • Kuko audrašauklisLithuanian
  • Kuka vētrasputnsLatvian
  • TītīMāori
  • Cook-stormvogelDutch
  • Cooks StormvogelDutch
  • flaggermuspetrellNorwegian
  • petrel nowozelandzkiPolish
  • freira-de-cookPortuguese
  • freira-de-testa-azulPortuguese
  • grazina-de-cookPortuguese
  • Новозеландский тайфунникRussian
  • tajfúnnik malýSlovak
  • cookpetrellSwedish
  • Cooks petrellSwedish
  • maoripetrellSwedish
  • Cook FırtınakuşuTurkish
  • тайфунник КукаUkrainian
  • 黑脚圆尾鹱Chinese
  • 庫克氏圓尾鸌Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistTAXREFWikidataWoRMSIUCN Red List

Relatives of the cook's petrel

Other species in the same genus Pterodroma.

CompareCook's petrel vs Bermuda petrelCook's petrel vs Great-winged petrelCook's petrel vs Soft-plumaged petrelCook's petrel vs Black-winged petrel

Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the cook's petrel?

An adult cook's petrel weighs 172.5 g – 194 g and has a wingspan of 66 cm – 82 cm, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the cook's petrel live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the cook's petrel for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the cook's petrel endangered?

The cook's petrel is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

What kind of animal is the cook's petrel?

The cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii) belongs to the family Procellariidae in the order Procellariiformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cooks-petrel

MLA

“Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cooks-petrel.

BibTeX
@misc{cooks_petrel_2026,
  title = {Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cooks-petrel},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}