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Guadalupe Storm-Petrel
Hydrobates macrodactylus
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About the Guadalupe Storm-Petrel
The Guadalupe storm petrel (Hydrobates macrodactylus) is a small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. It bred only on Guadalupe Island off Baja California, Mexico, and presumably ranged throughout the region. It has been assessed as Critically Endangered or possibly extinct.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates macrodactylus
- 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
- Black Storm-Petrel Hydrobates melania
- European Storm-Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus
- Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Hydrobates furcatus
- 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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