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Alternative name: Madeiran Storm-Petrel

Photo by Glen Tepke
Atlantic near Hydrographer Canyon, south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, August 2005

Oceanodroma castro

[edit] Identification

19-21cm

• Sooty-brown plumage
• Narrow, rectangular, white rump patch
• Slightly forked tail
• Dark bill with tube on top.

[edit] Similar Species

Leach's Storm-Petrel:

[edit] Distribution

Breeds on the Azores and Madeira in the Atlantic, and the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific. Otherwise pelagic.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Pelagic.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Flight

Quick wing beats between glides on bowed wings.

[edit] Breeding

It nests in colonies close to the sea in rock crevices and lays a single white egg. Nests are visited only at night.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes invertebrates, small vertebrates and sometimes carrion.

[edit] References

1. Collins Field Guide 5th Edition
2. Collins Bird Guide ISBN 0 00 219728 6
3. USGS

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages