Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates castro)

Other Names (World)
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Madeiran Storm-petrel, Harcourt's Storm-petrel, Band-rumped Storm Petrel

Family
Hydrobatidae (Northern Storm-petrels)

Size
19 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Harcourt, 1851)

Habitat
Pelagic.

Range (Guide)

Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Japan, Kiribati, Marshall Islands (NB), Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Northern Mariana Islands (NB), Portugal (B) (NB), S�o Tom� e Principe, Senegal, Spain (NB) (P), St Helena (B), USA (NB).

Vagrant to Antigua And Barbuda, Canada, Cuba, France, Ghana, Ireland, Israel, Russia (Asian), Sierra Leone, United Kingdom.

Eastern Atlantic from Berlengas Is (off central Portugal) and Azores south to Ascension I and St Helena. Also in Pacific, off eastern Japan, on Kauai (Hawaii) and at Galapagos.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 150000 (2013) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Highly vocal around colonies, a squeaky 'chiwee' and a repeated, deep purring 'kuwa kuwa gvurururu' or 'kerr wheecha wheecha wheecha wheecha wheeeechuh'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Band-rumped Storm Petrel (Hydrobates castro) [XC18562]
by James Bradley from Selvagem Grande, Ilhas Selvagens, Portugal (call)

Band-rumped Storm Petrel (Hydrobates) [XC601885]
by Marcel Gil Velasco from Corvo Island (near Corvo), A\u00e7ores, Portugal (uncertain)

Subspecies
Oceanodroma castro (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates castro) and Monteiro's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates monteiroi) following Bolton et al. (2008).

Four birds caught at sea in Gulf of Guinea noticeably larger with less white on rump, might belong to undescribed subspecies.

No subspecies.

Similar Species
Monteiro's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates monteiroi) has a more prominent diagonal wing bar.

References
See References.

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