White-vented Storm-petrel
- White-vented Storm-petrel
Taxobox
name = White-vented Storm-petrel
image_caption = "O. g. galapagoensis"
status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Procellariiformes
familia = Hydrobatidae
genus = "Oceanites"
species = "O. gracilis"
binomial = "Oceanites gracilis"
binomial_authority = (Elliot, 1859)
synonyms = The White-vented Storm-petrel ("Oceanites gracilis") is a species of seabird in the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae. The species is also known as Elliot's Storm-petrel. There are two subspecies, "O. g. gracilis", which is found in the Humboldt Current off Peru and Chile, and "O. g. galapagoensis", which is found in the waters around the Galapagos Islands. It is a sooty-black storm-petrel with a white rump. It has long legs which extend beyond the body in flight.
In spite of the frequent sightings of this species it is very poorly known; only one nest has ever been found. The feeding behaviour of the Galapagos subspecies is unusual amongst storm-petrels as it forages close to shore; all other storm-petrels are exclusively pelagic.
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* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15034/all Oceanites gracilis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
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