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	Storm Petrels
		Storm petrels, or "Mother Carey's Chickens", as they have long been called by sailors, are the smallest of the Procellariiformes.
		Both the white-vented storm petrel and the wedge-rumped storm petrel are endemic Galapagos subspecies.
		Storm petrels are not often easy to identify because of their very small size (6-8 inches), rapid movements, and generally great distances from the observer.
	www.rit.edu /~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Petrel.html (476 words)

	Petrels - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Storm petrels are the smallest and lightest seabirds in the world.
		The White-headed Petrel is a burrowing petrel with dark wings, a white head with a dark eye and a pale body and tail.
		The Atlantic petrel is one of the largest gadfly petrels, recognized by its striking white breast and belly in contrast to the rest of its plumage which is uniformly brown.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/birds/petrels.shtml (916 words)

	Storm Petrels
		Leach's Storm Petrels nest in colonies and build their nests on open ground at the end of a level tunnel up to one yard long.
		Storm Petrels build their nests and mate on far off isles or barren mountainous country in South America where predators don't bother them.
		Two of the main predators for Storm Petrels are sea gulls or other large seabirds so most of the birds fly onto the shoreline to breed after dark.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/birding/85229/1 (532 words)

	New Zealand Storm Petrel News Hauraki Gulf Seabirds New Zealand Pelagic Birdwatchers
		We observed fl and white storm petrels on 31 seabird-watching trips to the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, November 2003 - November 2005.
		Other birds seen at this location were white-faced storm petrel; fairy prion; Cook's petrel; Buller's, fluttering and flesh-footed shearwaters; common diving petrel; and blue penguin (all summer breeders in the Hauraki Gulf), also grey-faced petrel and little shearwater (both winter/spring breeders in the Hauraki Gulf).
		Diving Petrels, Fluttering and Little Shearwaters and Blue Penguins (essentially resident through the year in the HG) were all coming in to burrows on the Mokes at night and the former two are very noticeable in the Outer Gulf at the moment.
	www.nzseabirds.com /nzstormpetrel_news.php (1884 words)

	Storm Petrel 44' Cutter Charter Yacht - Cruising the Caribbean waters with Admiralty Yacht Vacations
		Storm Petrel is a "Captain Only" yacht so guests act as crew, helping the skipper, Phil, cook, sail and navigate.
		Spacious and comfortable, the 44' cutter, Storm Petrel is a "captain only" yacht so guests act as crew, helping the skipper, Phil, cook, sail and navigate.
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	www.admirals.com /stormpetrel (685 words)

	Yellow-footed gull preys on a black storm petrel
		The petrel was caught after it left the colony, approximately 75 m from shore, when it was forced to the water's surface by the gull, and apparently consumed.
		Observations of potential avoidance behavior by storm- petrels at sea, when storm-petrels and gulls are in the same vicinity, would help clarify whether such possibilities were factors in this incident.
		Harris, S.W. Status, chronology, and ecology of nesting storm petrels in northwestern California.
	www.cascadiaresearch.org /Robin/petrel.htm (745 words)

	Justgiving - Sponsor a Storm Petrel
		Storm petrels migrate south each year to spend the winter in the south Atlantic, off southern Africa.
		Since 1990, more than 3,000 storm petrels have been caught, ringed and released in Portugal, and many of these have been recaptured by other scientists near the breeding colonies.
		Your sponsorship donation will be used to continue and develop the ongoing scientific research on the links between climate change and the migration behaviour of storm petrels being carried out by A Rocha Portugal and the Earthwatch Institute.
	www.justgiving.com /sponsor_a_stormie (796 words)

	Leach's Storm-petrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leach's Storm-petrel or Leach's Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) is a small seabird of the tubenose family.
		The Leach's Petrel is a small bird at 18-21 cm in length with a 43-48 cm wingspan, but is distinctly larger than the European Storm-petrel, which it superficially resembles with its dark plumage and white rump.
		Lifespan for this bird is unusually long for a bird of such rather small size, with an average of 20 years and a maximum recorded lifespan of 36 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leach's_Storm-Petrel (432 words)

	New Zealand Storm Petrel
		It looked like a Black-bellied Storm Petrel (BBSP), but a few key features didn't match, and it was the wrong time of year for this species to be around.
		It was clearly a storm petrel, dark on the back, head and breast, pale on the belly, and with a bright white rump.
		It would be a difficult job - storm petrel burrows are often widely dispersed among other seabirds, and large areas of the Mokes are covered in dense stands of flax, which are a pig to move around in.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~number8/Storm_Petrel.htm (2592 words)

	Bolger on Storm Petrel
		The idea is that if she got caught by bad weather offshore, she could do the corked-bottle act, protecting one or two people from the storm for a few hours or even days.
		She was to have a motor in any case, and the historical record is that when a motor comes on the scene, light-weather canvas tends to disappear.
		As shown, Storm Petrel has to be regarded as a motorsailer, though she'll sail respectably enough when there's weight in the wind.
	www.belljar.net /petrel.htm (839 words)

	Storm Petrel Census and Monitoring
		or 7.5% of suitable petrel habitat on the island.
		Leach's Storm Petrels are typically reported at occupancy rates ranging from 55-65% and occupancy of Great Duck averaged 30% in 2000.
		The rise in numbers of breeding pairs cannot be said necessarily to reflect a population increase because of the different methods used in previous studies and because of high variance within studies.
	www.coa.edu /html/juliaambagis.htm (733 words)

	Swinhoe's Storm Petrel Oceanodrama monorhis
		All the Storm Petrel group are vagrants to Eilat, so what ever the outcome of the identification it very quickly became clear that this was an extraordinary observation.
		Remarkably, Swinhoe's Storm Petrel breeds in the NW Pacific off Japan, South and West Korea and migrates to the SW Pacific and Northern Indian ocean.
		All the images were taken on the 19th of April 2003, including what is possibly the first 'field' photograph of a vagrant storm petrel to be taken in Israel.
	www.birdingisrael.com /birdNews/GuestOfHonor/storm-petrel/index.htm (413 words)

	Encountering Seabirds & Marine Mammals in the Eastern Pacific
		In the very deepest water, we encountered Herald, Henderson, Juan Fernandez, Gould's and Stejneger's Petrels with regularity, whereas we found Galapagos, Defilippe's and Cook's Petrels to be more abundant slightly closer to the continent Defilippe's and Cook's Petrels tended to occurs farther south than the others and primarily in the Humboldt Current.
		As might be expected, Galapagos Petrel, Madeiran Storm-Petrel and Galapagos Storm-Petrel were most numerous in the vicinity of their nesting islands, although surprisingly they were sometimes encountered well away from the Galapagos Islands as well.
		At this time of year, Defilippe's Petrel were in active molt allowing easy separation of this species at a distance from the fresh and unmolted Cook's Petrels.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /PetrelCocktail.html (1358 words)

	Storm petrel - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Storm petrel - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Its tail is not forked, unlike Leach's petrel.
		In flight it flutters over the water, feeding with its wings held up in a 'V' with feet pattering across the waves.
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/s/stormpetrel/index.asp (241 words)

	Storm petrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Storm Petrel is the second of Skokholm's nocturnal specialities.
		The incubation period is around 40 days, and the fledging period around 65 days, both extraordinarily long periods for such a small bird.
		Despite the numers of Storm Petrels nesting on the island, they are rarely seen during the day, either from the island or in surrounding waters.
	members.aol.com /skokholm/stormy.htm (266 words)

	Amazon.com: storm-petrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The storm petrel and the owl of Athena, by Louis Joseph Halle (Unknown Binding - 1970)
		The storm petrels were often attracted to us...
		Storms, Ice, and Whales: The Antarctic Adventures of a Dutch Artist on a Norwegian Whaler by Willem van der Does and Ruth van Baak Griffioen (Hardcover - Aug 2003)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=storm-petrel&index=blended&page=1 (560 words)

	Avian Demography Unit: Leach's Storm Petrel
		Until the mid 1990s, the status of Leach's Storm Petrel in southern African seas was that of a rare visitor which breeds in the northern hemisphere only.
		In October 1995, a small group of Leach's Storm Petrels was discovered on Dyer Island off the south coast of South Africa.
		In October 2000, four Leach's Storm Petrels were heard calling from likely nest sites in a stone wall at Jutten Island, also on the west coast, and a fifth site appeared to be occupied.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/species/sp043_00.htm (675 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The earliest record is a bird seen on Georges Bank on 11 April 1983 (R.S. d'Entremont) and the latest was observed close to shore "in a tearing gale and rough seas" at Scots Bay, Kings County, on 11 November 1975 (J. and J.S. Cohrs, M. and R. Anderson).
		This bird is far more frequently seen during its relatively short sojourn here than Leach's Storm Petrel.
		It is found along the entire Scotian Shelf on the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia, and a few birds enter the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0019.htm (337 words)

	LOS NEWS/NO. 192 - AUGUST 2000 - PAGE 2
		They often hold themselves motionless on stationary extended wings (in a breeze) or flap as they patter or drag their feet on the water.
		"Petrel" was derived from the Bible; the pattering behavior of storm-petrels was likened to Peter (who could walk on water).
		Bulwer's Petrel is in the family Procellaridae but bears a superficial resemblance to Storm-Petrels.
	www.losbird.org /los_news_192_00aug2.htm (4828 words)

	Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ: Could the New Zealand Storm-petrel still exist?
		Three species of fl and white storm petrels have been encountered in New Zealand waters.
		A strangely striped storm petrel was collected off Samoa by the American Exploring Expedition in 1842 and became known as ‘Pealea lineata’.
		Most relevant to New Zealand was the rediscovery, in 1979, of the Magenta Petrel (Chatham Island Taiko), Pterodroma magentae, which had not been seen since the collection of the original specimen in 1867.
	www.wrybill-tours.com /idproblems/stormpet1.htm (2025 words)

	Avian Demography Unit: Whitefaced Storm Petrel Pelagodroma marina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The nearest Whitefaced Storm Petrel breeding colonies to South Africa are at Tristan da Cunha and at Gough Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
		In the northern Atlantic, it breeds in large numbers on islands in the Selvagens Archipelago; these islands are off Morocco, just north of the better-known Canary Islands, where about 10 pairs of Whitefaced Storm Petrels have recently been discovered breeding.
		It is not considered threatened, but it is sensitive to any form of human disturbance at breeding colonies, and numbers of breeding pairs at some of these are declining.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/species/sp990_00.htm (369 words)

	Bird directive: Storm Petrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Storm Petrels require breeding islands free of mammalian predators.
		Although the popualtions are probably stable, those on the Mediterranean have declined in recent years.
		The major threat is the accidental introduction of mammalian predators to breeding sites, the Storm Petrel beeing highly susceptible to such predation as the majority of is concentrated in relatively few sites.
	ec.europa.eu /environment/nature/directive/hydrobates_pelagicus_en.htm (170 words)

	Galapagos Islands birdlife - Storm petres - Galapagos Cruises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Galapagos Islands > Galapagos Islands wildlife > Galapagos birdlife > Galapagos sea birds > Storm petrels
		Storm petrels, the name "Petrel" is thought to be derived from St. Peter, because their habit of not quite landing in the water, but dipping their feet in and fluttering over the surface while they feed on plankton, makes them seem as though they are walking on water.
		The white-vented storm petrel, are the most commonly sighted inshore species.
	www.galapagoscruise.com.ec /index.pl/galapagos-storm-petrels (441 words)

	Nearctica - Natural History - Birds of Eastern North America - Petrels - Wilson's Storm-Petrel
		Breeding Range (see map below): Wilson's Storm Petrel breeds on the coasts of islands in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions.
		Overwintering Range: This species is commonly seen on the open ocean off the eastern coast of North America during the northern summer and can be found, at one time or another, just about anywhere in the world's oceans.
		Notes: Some consider Wilson's Storm-Petrel to the most abundant bird species on earth, nesting in millions in their breeding grounds in the southern hemisphere.
	www.nearctica.com /birds/tubenose/Oocean.htm (301 words)

	Storm-Petrel family
		Crossin, R. The storm petrels (Hydrobatidae), in Pelagic studies of seabirds in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean (W. King, ed.), pp.154-205.
		Haney, C. Band-rumped Storm-Petrel occurrence in relation to upwelling off the coast of the southeastern United States.
		Marsh, P. Identification problem produced by Leach's Petrel in moult.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/storm-petrels.html (1212 words)

	About Storm Petrel Publications
		Storm Petrel is a tiny press producing and selling one product in 2007.
		Once upon a once, when I worked on a crazy boat in the North Pacific, I became a fan of a little bird.
		I just figure that a little bird that plays like that would have to have “storm” in his name — and there is one little far-ocean bird with the word “storm” in his name.
	stormpetrel.us (254 words)

	AllRefer.com - storm petrel (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
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	PRBO Conservation Science: Saddle Rock Leach's Storm-Petrel
		We are working to assess current storm-petrel population status and predation threats on Saddle Rock to provide quantitative information on which to base conservation and management plans.
		To assess breeding population size and trends of Leach’s Storm-Petrels through (i) designing and installing a raised, removable boardwalk system to facilitate researcher access to a portion of Saddle Rock without damaging vegetation or crushing petrel burrows, (ii) conducting storm-petrel mark/recapture surveys and burrow/occupancy counts, and (iii) assessing predation effects on storm-petrel adults/chicks.
		We will model Leach’s Storm-Petrel population trends in relation to historical data and oceanographic conditions to better understand factors affecting population dynamics at Saddle Rock and in the CCS.
	www.prbo.org /cms/index.php/?mid=319&module=browse (260 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Wilsons storm-petrel
		Wilson's storm petrel are gregarious at sea with flocks reaching several thousands at staging points during migration.
		Wilson's storm-petrel feed by running along the surface of the water with wings outstretched and bill (or their entire head) submerged in the water to scoop in their food, taking minutiae from the surface.
		Van Franeker, J.A. and Montague,T. Recoveries of petrel banded near Casey station, Wilkes Land, Antarctica, 1984 to 1985.
	www.aad.gov.au /default.asp?casid=1648 (557 words)

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