Mottled petrel
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Procellariidae
Genus:	Pterodroma
Species:	P. inexpectata
Binomial name
Pterodroma inexpectata (J. R. Forster, 1844)
Synonyms
Procellaria inexpectata J. R. Forster, 1844 Procellaria raolensis Bonaparte, 1857 (nomen novum) Procellaria gularis Peale, 1848 Procellaria affinis Buller, 1874 Aestrelata fisheri Ridgway, 1883 Aestrelata scalaris Brewster, 1896 Procellaria lugens Mathews, 1912 Pterodroma neglus Mathews, 1928 (nomen novum) Pterodroma inexpectata thompsoni Mathews, 1915

The mottled petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) or kōrure is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels. It usually attains 33 to 35 cm (13–14 in) in length with a 74 to 82 cm (29–32 in) wingspan.

This species is highly pelagic, rarely approaching land, except to nest and rear young. The mottled petrel feeds mostly on fish and squid, with some crustaceans taken. It is a transequatorial migrant, breeding in the islands of New Zealand, and migrating to the Bering Sea, concentrating in the Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

The mottled petrel uses burrows and rock crevices to nest in. It was formerly more numerous than today. The species' numbers have been and continue to be affected by predation by introduced mammals. Chicks have been reintroduced to Maungaharuru, hills 24 km from the sea, in Hawke's Bay.^[2]

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  Pterodroma inexpectata, Auckland Museum collection