Species profile
Grey-Backed Storm Petrel
Garrodia nereis
Quick answer
Circumpolar subantarctic waters, north to about 35°S
- Scientific name
- Garrodia nereis
- Family
- Hydrobatidae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Genus
- Garrodia
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Grey-Backed Storm Petrel in your journal
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Related species in Hydrobatidae
- Ainley's Storm-petrel (Hydrobates cheimomnestes)
- Ainley's Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma 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)