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Ashy Storm-Petrel
Hydrobates homochroa
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About the Ashy Storm-Petrel
The ashy storm petrel (Hydrobates homochroa) is a small, scarce seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. It breeds colonially on islands off the coasts of California and Mexico, and is one of six species of storm petrel that live and feed in the rich California Current system.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates homochroa
- Family
- Northern Storm-Petrels
- Order
- Procellariiformes
Similar species
Other members of the northern storm-petrels family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Ainley's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates cheimomnestes
- Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Hydrobates castro
- Black Storm-Petrel Hydrobates melania
- European Storm-Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus
- Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Hydrobates furcatus
- Guadalupe Storm-Petrel Hydrobates macrodactylus
- Leach's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates leucorhous
- Least Storm-Petrel Hydrobates microsoma
- Ringed Storm-Petrel Hydrobates hornbyi
- Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates monorhis
- Townsend's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates socorroensis
- Tristram's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates tristrami
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