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What the Leach's Storm Petrel sounds like
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Leach's petrel is a small bird at 18–21 cm in length with a 43–48 cm wingspan. Like many other storm petrels, it has all-black plumage except for a paler grey-brown bar on secondary wing coverts on the wing, a slightly paler face, and usually a white rump with a hint of a dark divide down the middle. However, dark-rumped individuals exist on the west coast of North America; they are very rare north of southern California, but the percentage increases suddenly on the United States-Mexico border, where 90-100% of breeding birds are dark-rumped.
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When to see the Leach's Storm Petrel
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Leach's Storm Petrel
The map shades 42 countries with regular records, and 48 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Sweden, Belgium, Colombia, Brazil, Taiwan, Panama, South Africa, Australia, Morocco, Poland, Chile, Finland, Honduras, Mauritania, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Venezuela, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, EH, Peru, Caribbean Netherlands, Guyana, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, Angola, China, Guam, Lebanon, Latvia, Puerto Rico, SJ, UM, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vanuatu, Argentina, Switzerland, Cuba, Dominica, Fiji, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Jersey, St. Lucia, Liberia, Nigeria.
About the Leach's Storm Petrel
Leach's storm petrel or Leach's petrel is a small seabird of the tubenose order. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek. Hydrobates is from hydōr "water", and batēs "walker", and leucorhous is from leukos, "white" and orrhos, "rump". It was formerly treated in the genus Oceanodroma before that genus was merged into Hydrobates.
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Easily confused with
Townsend's Storm PetrelHydrobates socorroensisTownsend's storm petrel is a species of seabird in the family Hydrobatidae.
Ainley's Storm PetrelHydrobates cheimomnestesAinley's storm petrel is a medium-sized species about 18 cm (7.1 in) long, with fairly long wings with blunt points, and a moderately long, forked tail.
Cape Verde Storm PetrelHydrobates jabejabeThis bird is darker in plumage and the white rump is less conspicuous than Leach's storm petrel.
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