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Revision as of 08:18, 23 January 2013
- Oceanodroma monorhis
Identification
18-21 cm. Dark brown.
Distribution
Islands in the northwest Pacific off China, Japan and Korea. It spends the rest of the year at sea, ranging into the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, and as a rare guest into the Atlantic where photographed off Hatteras, North Carolina[2].
Taxonomy
Habitat
Pelagic.
Behaviour
Nests in colonies close to the sea in rock crevices and lays a single white egg.
It takes plankton from the ocean surface.
References
- Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- 51st supplement to the AOU checklist of North American birds
