Species profile
Ainley's Storm-Petrel
Oceanodroma cheimomnestes
Quick answer
winter breeder on islets off Guadalupe I. (western Mexico); nonbreeding range poorly known, but apparently disperses south in eastern Pacific, to at least as far as the Galapagos Islands
- Scientific name
- Oceanodroma cheimomnestes
- Family
- Hydrobatidae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Genus
- Oceanodroma
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Related species in Hydrobatidae
- Ainley's Storm-petrel (Hydrobates cheimomnestes)
- ashy storm-petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa)
- Ashy Storm-petrel (Hydrobates homochroa)
- black storm-petrel (Oceanodroma melania)
- Black Storm-petrel (Hydrobates melania)
- Black-bellied storm petrel (Fregetta tropica)
- Cape Verde Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma jabejabe)
- European Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)