Storm petrel
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Storm petrel or stormy petrel may refer to one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family.
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Up and down!—up and down!
From the base of the wave to the billow's crown,
And amidst the flashing and feathery foam
The stormy petrel finds a home,—
A home, if such a place may be
For her who lives on the wide, wide sea.
O’er the deep!—o'er the deep!
Where the whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep,—
Outflying the blast and the driving rain,
The petrel telleth her tale—in vain!
|source = From "The Stormy Petrel", a poem by Barry Cornwall[https://books.google.com/books?id=kXd4bRr71a4C&dq=Charles+Timothy+Brooks+ON+Alpine+heights&pg=PA354 A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from The Best Poets. With An Introduction by William Cullen Bryant], New York, J.B. Ford and Company, 1871, p. 354.}}
The two families are:
- Northern storm petrels (Hydrobatidae) are found in the Northern Hemisphere, although some species around the Equator dip into the south.
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| Common name
!Scientific name !Status |
|---|
| European storm petrel
|Hydrobates pelagicus |LC |
| Fork-tailed storm petrel
|Hydrobates furcatus |LC |
| Ringed storm petrel
|Hydrobates hornbyi |NT |
| Leach's storm petrel
|Hydrobates leucorhous |LC |
| Townsend's storm petrel
|Hydrobates socorroensis |EN |
| Ainley's storm petrel
|Hydrobates cheimomnestes |VU |
| Swinhoe's storm petrel
|Hydrobates monorhis |NT |
| Ashy storm petrel
|Hydrobates homochroa |EN |
| Band-rumped storm petrel
|Hydrobates castro |LC |
| Monteiro's storm petrel
|Hydrobates monteiroi |VU |
| Cape Verde storm petrel
|Hydrobates jabejabe |LC |
| Wedge-rumped storm petrel
|Hydrobates tethys |LC |
| Black storm petrel
|Hydrobates melania |LC |
| Guadalupe storm petrel
|Hydrobates macrodactylus |CR (Probably Extinct) |
| Markham's storm petrel
|Hydrobates markhami |NT |
| Matsudaira's storm petrel
|Hydrobates matsudairae |VU |
| Tristram's storm petrel
|Hydrobates tristrami |LC |
| Least storm petrel
|Hydrobates microsoma |LC |
- Southern storm petrels (Oceanitidae) are found in all oceans, although only white-faced storm petrel (breeding in the North Atlantic, in addition to the Southern Ocean) and Wilson's storm petrels (on migration) are found in the Northern Hemisphere.
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| Common name
!Scientific name !Status |
|---|
| Wilson's storm petrel
|Oceanites oceanicus |LC |
| Pincoya storm petrel
|Oceanites pincoyae |DD |
| Elliot's storm petrel
|Oceanites gracilis |DD |
| Grey-backed storm petrel
|Garrodia nereis |LC |
| White-faced storm petrel
|Pelagodroma marina |LC |
| White-bellied storm petrel
|Fregetta grallaria |LC |
| New Zealand storm petrel
|Fregetta maoriana |CR |
| Black-bellied storm petrel or Gould's storm petrel
|Fregetta tropica |LC |
| Polynesian storm petrel (including white-throated storm petrel)
|Nesofregetta fuliginosa |EN |