Storm petrel
Appearance
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Storm petrel may refer to one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.
Up and down! - up and down!
From the base of the wave to the billow’s crown,
And amidst the flashing and feathery foam
The stormy petrel finds a home, -
A home, if such a place may be
For her who lives on the wide, wide sea.
O’er the deep! - o’er the deep!
Where the whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep, -
Outflying the blast and the driving rain,
The petrel telleth her tale — in vain!
From "The Stormy Petrel" poem by Barry Cornwall[1]
The two families are:
- Northern storm petrels (Hydrobatidae) are found in the Northern Hemisphere, although some species around the Equator dip into the south.
Common name | Scientific name | Status |
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European storm petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | LC |
Fork-tailed storm petrel | Hydrobates furcatus | LC |
Ringed storm petrel | Hydrobates hornbyi | NT |
Leach's storm petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | LC |
Townsend's storm petrel | Hydrobates socorroensis | EN |
Ainley's storm petrel | Hydrobates cheimomnestes | VU |
Swinhoe's storm petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | NT |
Ashy storm petrel | Hydrobates homochroa | EN |
Band-rumped storm petrel | Hydrobates castro | LC |
Monteiro's storm petrel | Hydrobates monteiroi | VU |
Cape Verde storm petrel | Hydrobates jabejabe | LC |
Wedge-rumped storm petrel | Hydrobates tethys | LC |
Black storm petrel | Hydrobates melania | LC |
Guadalupe storm petrel | Hydrobates macrodactylus | CR (Probably Extinct) |
Markham's storm petrel | Hydrobates markhami | NT |
Matsudaira's storm petrel | Hydrobates matsudairae | VU |
Tristram's storm petrel | Hydrobates tristrami | LC |
Least storm petrel | Hydrobates microsoma | LC |
- Southern storm petrels (Oceanitidae) are found in all oceans, although only white-faced storm petrel (breeding in the North Atlantic, in addition to the Southern Ocean) and Wilson's storm petrels (on migration) are found in the Northern Hemisphere.
Common name | Scientific name | Status |
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Wilson's storm petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | LC |
Pincoya storm petrel | Oceanites pincoyae | DD |
Elliot's storm petrel | Oceanites gracilis | DD |
Grey-backed storm petrel | Garrodia nereis | LC |
White-faced storm petrel | Pelagodroma marina | LC |
White-bellied storm petrel | Fregetta grallaria | LC |
New Zealand storm petrel | Fregetta maoriana | CR |
Black-bellied storm petrel or Gould's storm petrel | Fregetta tropica | LC |
Polynesian storm petrel (including white-throated storm petrel) | Nesofregetta fuliginosa | EN |
References
[edit]- ^ A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from The Best Poets. With An Introduction by William Cullen Bryant, New York, J.B. Ford and Company, 1871, p. 354.