Townsend's Storm-Petrel Hydrobates socorroensis Scientific name definitions
- EN Endangered
- Names (21)
- Monotypic
Revision Notes
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Catalan | ocell de tempesta de Townsend |
Czech | buřňáček Townsendův |
English | Townsend's Storm-Petrel |
English (Hong Kong SAR China) | Townsend's Storm Petrel |
English (United States) | Townsend's Storm-Petrel |
French | Océanite de Townsend |
French (France) | Océanite de Townsend |
German | Townsend-Wellenläufer |
Japanese | タウンゼンドウミツバメ |
Norwegian | sommerstormsvale |
Polish | nawałnik meksykański |
Russian | Летняя качурка |
Serbian | Gvadalupska letnja burnica |
Slovak | víchrovníček letný |
Spanish | Paíño de Isla Socorro |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | Paiño de Socorro |
Spanish (Mexico) | Paíño de Townsend |
Spanish (Spain) | Paíño de isla Socorro |
Swedish | townsendstormsvala |
Turkish | Townsend Fırtınakırlangıcı |
Ukrainian | Качурка негроанська |
Revision Notes
Fernando Medrano, Julio Hernández-Montoya, Ariana Duarte, and Jacob González-Solís revised this account as part of a partnership with ROC (Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile). Peter Pyle contributed to the Plumages, Molts, and Structure page. Arnau Bonan Barfull curated the media.
Hydrobates socorroensis (Townsend, 1890)
Definitions
- HYDROBATES
- socoroensis / socorroensis
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Legend Overview
Introduction
A poorly known and Endangered seabird, Townsend's Storm-Petrel is found in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico and southern California. It shares with Ainley's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates cheimomnestes) a very restricted breeding distribution: both species nest only on a few islets at the southern end of Guadalupe Island, off of the northwestern coast of Mexico. Although these two species share the same islets, they scarcely overlap, as each breeds at a different time of year. Townsend's Storm-Petrel occupies the site in the warmer months, with egg laying from late May to the end of June, and the nestlings fledge in late September and early October. In addition to this temporal segregation, Ainley's Storm-Petrel and Townsend's Storm-Petrel have different vocalizations, and also have subtle size and plumage differences. Very little is known about the non-breeding distributions of these species, due to their similarity to each other and to Leach's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous), and to the rarity of both species, but Townsend's Storm-Petrel disperses both north and south at sea, extending from the waters off of southern California, United States, and at least to a latitude of 10º N.