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Ringed Storm-Petrel
Hydrobates hornbyi
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About the Ringed Storm-Petrel
The ringed storm petrel (Hydrobates hornbyi), also known as Hornby's storm petrel, is a seabird that ranges in the Humboldt Current off the coasts of South America. The species is a very distinctive member of the storm petrel family, with a dark cap, white face and underparts, forked tail and a black band across the chest. It is relatively common in the seas off Peru, Chile and Ecuador. The species is named after Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby.
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Classification
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates hornbyi
- 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
- Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates monorhis
- Townsend's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates socorroensis
- Tristram's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates tristrami
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