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Ainley's Storm-Petrel
Hydrobates cheimomnestes
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About the Ainley's Storm-Petrel
Ainley's storm petrel (Hydrobates cheimomnestes) is a species of seabird in the family Hydrobatidae. It breeds in the winter on Guadalupe Island off the western coast of Mexico. It ranges south to the Galápagos Islands. It is considered by some authorities to be a subspecies of Leach's storm petrel.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates cheimomnestes
- 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.
- 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
- 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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