Townsend's storm petrel

Townsend's storm petrel
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Hydrobatidae
Genus:	Hydrobates
Species:	H. socorroensis
Binomial name
Hydrobates socorroensis (Townsend, CH, 1890)
Synonyms
Oceanodroma socorroensis Townsend, 1890 Oceanodroma kaedingi Anthony, 1898

Townsend's storm petrel (Hydrobates socorroensis) is a species of seabird in the family Hydrobatidae. It breeds in the summer on rocks and islets ^[2] of Guadalupe Island off the western coast of Mexico. It ranges in the Eastern Pacific Ocean north to southern California in the United States and south to 10°N latitude. It used to be considered a subspecies of the Leach's storm petrel. It was formerly defined in the genus Oceanodroma before that genus was synonymized with Hydrobates . ^[3]

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Hydrobates socorroensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T132450926A132452334. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T132450926A132452334.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Nettleship, David N.; Kirwan, Guy M. (2020-03-04), Del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Sargatal, Jordi; Christie, David; De Juana, Eduardo (eds.), "Guadalupe Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus)", Birds of the World, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, doi:10.2173/bow.xanmur1.01
3. "Taxonomic Updates – IOC World Bird List" . Retrieved 2021-07-29.

• Ainley, D.G. 1980. Geographic variation in Leach's Storm-Petrel. Auk 97: 837–853.