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

Fontes e Créditos

  1. (c) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Orn:363224
  2. (c) Flickr, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8281/7740814840_d9e1cd524d_b.jpg
  3. (c) Flickr, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8428/7737756992_31db908b22_b.jpg
  4. Schlawe, C, sem restrições de direitos de autor conhecidas (domínio público), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/20982.jpg
  5. (c) Marcel Holyoak, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/33816646@N06/5897816187
  6. Adaptado por Roger Simard de uma obra de (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanodroma_leucorhoa
  7. Adaptado por Roger Simard de uma obra de (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/18956612
  8. (c) Roger Simard, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA)

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