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Oceanodroma monorhis

[edit] Identification

18-21 cm. Dark brown.

[edit] Distribution

Islands in the northwest Pacific off China, Japan and Korea. It spends the rest of the year at sea, ranging into the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Pelagic.

[edit] Behaviour

Nests in colonies close to the sea in rock crevices and lays a single white egg.

It takes plankton from the ocean surface.

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