Matsudaira's Storm Petrel
Hydrobates matsudairae(Kuroda, Nm, 1922)
English (US) Matsudaira's Storm Petrel
The Matsudaira's Storm Petrel (Hydrobates matsudairae) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Hydrobatidae (Northern Storm Petrels) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: breeds Volcano Islands (far southern Japan); disperses westward to Arabian Sea, Seychelles, and off eastern African coast, eastward to western Micronesia, seas of eastern Indonesia, and off northwestern AustraliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates matsudairae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Matsudaira's Storm Petrel
- Described by
- (Kuroda, Nm, 1922)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oceanodroma melania matsudariae
- Described by
- (Kuroda, Nm, 1922)
- Type locality
- Sagami Bay, Japan.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.11, vol.4, no.2 p.311
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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