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Black Storm Petrel
Hydrobates melania (Bonaparte, 1854)
Hydrobatidae — Northern Storm Petrels
Black Storm Petrel, Hydrobates melania, breeds on islands in the Pacific off southern California and Baja California, including sites in the Gulf of California, and spends the non-breeding season in coastal eastern Pacific waters as far north as central California and south to northern Peru. It is a small seabird in the northern storm petrel family. It nests in rock crevices, sometimes in small earth burrows, and may also use old auklet burrows. It breeds colonially and attends colonies at night. It was described by Bonaparte in 1854.
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Hydrobatidae — Northern Storm Petrels
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Channel Is. (w of s California), Is. de San Benito (w of c Baja California), Roca Consag, Isla San Luis, Isla Partida and Isla Cardonosa Este (e of n, nc, c Baja California, Gulf of California)
- Nonbreeding range
- coastal e Pacific waters n to c California and s to n Peru
