Critically Endangered
MacGillivray's prion
Pachyptila macgillivrayi
MacGillivray's prion is a tubenose seabird in the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes) — Pachyptila macgillivrayi, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Range and habitat
MacGillivray's prion is a small petrel (a prion) in the Southern Ocean. It is found on Roche Quille, off Saint Paul Island and on Gough Island in the Tristan da Cunha group, south-central Atlantic Ocean. It was formerly present on Amsterdam Island in the central South Indian Ocean.
The population on Saint Paul Island has been increasing since the 1990s eradication of introduced rats and rabbits, but is still likely smaller than the original size.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Their diet and foraging habits are generally unknown, but they are hypothesized to feed on small zooplankton.
In crisis
MacGillivray's prion is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on MacGillivray's prion, Wikidata item Q31872885. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
