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Townsend's Storm-Petrel
Hydrobates socorroensis
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About the Townsend's Storm-Petrel
Townsend's storm petrel (Hydrobates socorroensis) is a species of seabird in the family Hydrobatidae. It breeds in the summer on rocks and islets of Guadalupe Island off the western coast of Mexico. It ranges in the Eastern Pacific Ocean north to southern California in the United States and south to 10°N latitude. It used to be considered a subspecies of the Leach's storm petrel. It was formerly defined in the genus Oceanodroma before that genus was synonymized with Hydrobates.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates socorroensis
- 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
- 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
- Tristram's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates tristrami
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