Leach's Storm-petrel (Océanite de Wilson)
Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Summary 6
The Leach's Storm Petrel or Leach's Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) is a small seabird of the tubenose family. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach.
Range description 7
Leach's Storm Petrel has an extensive global range. Breeding colonies are confined to the northern hemisphere, from the South Kuril Islands (Japan) round to Baja California (Mexico) including the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (USA) and Canada in the Pacific, and in the north-east North America, Iceland, northern United Kingdom and Norway in the Atlantic. Northern populations migration south into the tropics in winter, reaching the equator in the Pacific and as far south as south Brazil and South Africa in the Atlantic1.
Statut 8
Status : NM
Date d'arrivée record: 2/05/1900 (Rocher-aux-Oiseaux)
Date de départ record: 28/11/2001 (Île d'Orléans) Ornitho-Qc
Sources and Credits
- (c) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Orn:363224
- (c) Flickr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8281/7740814840_d9e1cd524d_b.jpg
- (c) Flickr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8428/7737756992_31db908b22_b.jpg
- Schlawe, C, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/20982.jpg
- (c) Marcel Holyoak, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/33816646@N06/5897816187
- Adapted by Roger Simard from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanodroma_leucorhoa
- Adapted by Roger Simard from a work by (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/18956612
- (c) Roger Simard, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
