Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
Photo · Joseph Smit

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Swinhoe's Storm Petrel

Hydrobates monorhis(Swinhoe, 1867)

Native
Order
PROCELLARIIFORMES

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

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

02 · Where

Where to find it

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

05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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