Townsend's Storm Petrel
Hydrobates socorroensis(Townsend, CH, 1890)
English (US) Townsend's Storm Petrel
The Townsend's Storm Petrel (Hydrobates socorroensis) 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: summer breeder on islets off Guadalupe Island (western Mexico); ranges in eastern Pacific north to southern California and southward to ca. 10°NRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates socorroensis
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Townsend's Storm Petrel
- Described by
- (Townsend, CH, 1890)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oceanodroma socorroensis
- Described by
- (Townsend, CH, 1890)
- Type locality
- Socorro Island, Revillagigedo Islands.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum 13, no.799 p.134
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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