Leach's storm petrel
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Leach's storm petrel or Leach's petrel is a small seabird of the tubenose order. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek. Hydrob
Leach's Storm petrel Saint Jean de Monts 01
Dark-rumped H. l. chapmani off the southern California coast
Egg of Leach's storm petrel (coll.MHNT)
Northern storm petrel
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Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the genus Hydrobates in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. The family was once lumped with the similar austral storm petrels in the co
Leach's storm petrel
…Hydrobates is from hydōr "water", and batēs "walker", and leucorhous is from leukos, "white" and orrhos, "rump". It was formerly treated in the genus Oceanodroma before that genus was merged into Hydrobates. It breeds on inaccessible islands in the colder northern areas of the North Atlantic and North Pacific…
European Storm Petrel From The Crossley ID Guide Eastern Birds
Unusually for the Hydrobatidae, the fork-tailed storm petrel has an all-grey plumage.
The chick of a fork-tailed storm petrel
The decline of the ashy storm petrel has led to it being declared an endangered species by the IUCN.