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Red-tailed Tropicbird

Animals; Birds

The Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda, is a seabird that nests across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the rarest of the tropicbirds, yet is still a widespread bird that is not ...

Matsudaira's Storm-petrel

Animals; Birds

Matsudaira's Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma matsudairae) is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It breeds solely in the Volcano Islands in the north-west Pacific Ocean, and winters in the ...

Townsend's Shearwater

Animals; Birds

Townsend's Shearwater, Puffinus auricularis, is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae. Its relationships are unresolved. Its closest relatives are probably, but not certainly, ...

Black-vented Shearwater

Animals; Birds

The Black-vented Shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas) is a species of seabird. Formerly considered a subspecies of the Manx Shearwater, its actual relationships are unresolved. This species is pelagic, ...

Black Storm-petrel

Animals; Birds

The Black Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma melania) is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae. The species breeds colonially on islands off the southern California coast of the United ...

Wedge-rumped Storm-petrel

Animals; Birds

The Wedge-rumped Storm-petrel, Oceanodroma tethys, is a storm-petrel. It breeds in the Galápagos Islands and on the coast of Peru.

Madeiran Storm-petrel

Animals; Birds

The Madeiran Storm-petrel, Oceanodroma castro, is of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae. In North America it is known as the Band-rumped Storm-Petrel. It breeds on islands in the warmer parts of ...

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