[syn. Pterodroma phaeopygia, Pterodroma phaeopygia sandwichensis]Uau or Hawaiian petrelProcellariidae (Shearwater family)IUCN: VulnerableEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (formerly all the main Hawaiian Islands except Niihau; still extant, but extinct on Oahu)Oahu, unspecified locationThe late Alan C. Ziegler (1926-2003), zoologist, identified these few priceless bones for me in 1992 with his notes.
This Salvin's Prion was wrecked in the storms in July 2011 in southern North Island was was being cared for in Johnsonvllle near Wellington. It was one of about three of this species I saw amongst hundreds of Broad-billed Prions. It is almost indistinguishable from the Antarctic Prion, in the hand it is separated by the wider bill and the visible lamellae (teeth like serrations) at the base of the bill.
The birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar quadrant :London :H.F. & G. Witherby,1928.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58795361
Laysan Albatross some dozen or so miles west of Cypress Point on the Central California Coast. Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Middle Autumn. By Blake Matheson.
The birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar quadrant :London :H.F. & G. Witherby,1928.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58795379