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Black Storm-Petrel
Hydrobates melania
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About the Black Storm-Petrel
The black storm petrel (Hydrobates melania) is a small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. It is 23 cm in length, with a wingspan of 46–51 cm.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates melania
- 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
- Ashy Storm-Petrel Hydrobates homochroa
- Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Hydrobates castro
- 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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