Leach’s Storm Petrel
Hydrobates leucorhous
VUVulnerable
- Family
- Northern Storm Petrels (Hydrobatidae)
- Order
- Procellariiformes
Overview
Leach's storm petrel or Leach's petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous) is a small seabird of the tubenose order. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek. Hydrobates is from hydōr "water", and batēs "walker", and leucorhous is from leukos, "white" and orrhos, "rump".
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Range and habitat
Countries
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Brazil
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Fiji
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Guam
- Guyana
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Latvia
- Liberia
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Papua New Guinea
- Poland
- Russia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Venezuela
- Western Sahara
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Leach's storm petrel
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
