Tristram’s Storm-Petrel has long, pointed wings and a notched tail, and glides low over the sea. It nests in island rock recesses and burrows, then ranges widely across the Pacific outside the breeding season.
Adult males and females are brownish gray, with long, pointed wings and a notched tail.
It often forages at night, taking prey from the ocean surface while flying. At nesting colonies it is nocturnal and nests in rock recesses or burrows excavated under vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.