Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Storm-Petrels :: Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel

Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma tethys

Described by: Bonaparte (1852)
Alternate common name(s): Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel, Wedge-rumped Storm-petrel, Galapagos Storm-petrel, Peruvian Storm-petrel, Peruvian Storm Petrel
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors

Photographs

Galapagos, Ecuador - Jul, 1999 © Allen Chartier  Galapagos, Ecuador - Sep, 2005 © Douglas Bolt 
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Range

Ce. Pacific Ocean;
(1) in the Galapagos Is. on Pitt, Tower and Roca Redonda (?) Is. (May-August).
(2) Several Peruvian guano is. including the Pescadores Group off Ancon and San Gallan Is. off Pisco.
Disperses n. to Ecuador, Colombia, Cocos Is. (1,2) in the Gulf of Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and w. coast of Mexico (Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas) to the c. Baja (Guadalupe and Revilla Gigedo Is.) and s. off the coast of Chile to Antofagasta.

Videos

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Sounds

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References

Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist. Vista, CA: Ibis Publishing Company, 2000.

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