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  7. Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
Photo · Joseph Smit

BirdUp · Species

Swinhoe's Storm Petrel

Hydrobates monorhis(Swinhoe, 1867)

Updated 21 March 2026

Origin: Native
Order
PROCELLARIIFORMES
Family
Hydrobatidae
Genus
Hydrobates

At a glance

The Swinhoe's Storm Petrel is a small bird, about 19–20 cm long, native to Australia.

Size
19–20 cm
Origin
Native
  • Identification
  • Where
  • Behaviour
  • Gallery

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

What does a Swinhoe's Storm Petrel look like?

The Swinhoe's Storm Petrel is a small bird, about 19–20 cm long and weighing 26–54 g.

Swinhoe's storm petrel or Swinhoe's petrel is a small, all-brown seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Field specs

Length
19–20 cm
Weight
26–54 g
Wingspan
45 cm

Measurements · avonet · CC BY 4.0

05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

What does a Swinhoe's Storm Petrel eat?

The Swinhoe's Storm Petrel feeds on fish/invertebrates, usually foraging alone.

06 · Gallery

Plumage up close

2 photos

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02 · Where

Where to find it

Where does the Swinhoe's Storm Petrel live in Australia?

The Swinhoe's Storm Petrel is native to Australia.

Breeding range
IO, PO : Verkhovsky and Karamzhin is. and satellite islets (south-west of Vladivostok, Russia), off Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu (central Japan), Korean Pen., off Shandong and Guangdong (east China) and Taiwan; possibly also Macaronesia (off north-west Africa)
Non-breeding range
Through seas of east Indonesian Arch., Ashmore Reef (north-west of Australia) to west and south India and Sri Lanka, Arabian Sea, and off north-east African coast, mostly north of Equator