Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
Hydrobates monorhis(Swinhoe, R, 1867)
English (US) Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
The Swinhoe's Storm Petrel (Hydrobates monorhis) 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 mainly islands off Japan, also islets off southeastern Russia, Korean Peninsula, eastern China, and Taiwan; ranges through eastern Indonesian Archipelago to southern India and Sri Lanka, Arabian Sea, and off northeastern African coast; recent records from Atlantic Ocean and MediterraneanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates monorhis
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
- Described by
- (Swinhoe, R, 1867)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Thalassidroma monorhis
- Described by
- (Swinhoe, R, 1867)
- Type locality
- near Amoy, China.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.2, vol.3, no.12 p.386
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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