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	Wilson's Storm-petrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilson's Storm-petrel or Wilson's Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae.
		The Wilson's Petrel is a small bird, 16-18.5 cm in length with a 38-42 cm wingspan.
		It has a more direct gliding flight than Storm Petrel, but shares the habit of pattering on the water surface as it picks planktonic food items from the ocean surface, though with more upraised wings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilson's_Storm-Petrel (339 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.
		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.
		Wilson's Storm-Petrel hops over the surface of the water with the wings held high.
	www.nearctica.com /birds/tubenose/Oocean.htm (339 words)

	Pelagic birding
		Sooty Shearwater, Wilson's Storm Petrel and Subantarctic Skua are also common, and Flesh-footed Shearwater and Antarctic Tern are seen on many of the trips.
		White-chinned Petrel and Sooty Shearwater can be seen in good numbers as can Cape Gannet and Wilson's Storm Petrels.
		Flesh-footed and Sooty Shearwater can also be seen as can European, Leach's and Wilson's Storm Petrel.
	www.zestforbirds.co.za /pelagicbirding.html (1255 words)

	BirdForum - Fea's Petrel
		Presumably the two overlapping populations of Madeiran Storm-petrel that differ in their breeding seasons would be split also by this logic...as if they weren't already difficult enough to ID compared with Leach's or Wilson's!
		Presumably the two overlapping populations of Madeiran Storm-petrel that differ in their breeding seasons would be split also by this logic...as if they weren't already difficult enough to ID compared with Leach's or Wilson's!"
		He said that we would surely get the storm-petrel, should get the skua, might get the shearwater if we were really lucky, but forget about the petrel, not going to happen.
	www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=23215&pp=40 (2430 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World
		Wilson's Storm-petrel in the warm blue waters of the Gulf Stream off North Carolina, USA.
		A small storm-petrel, slightly larger than European Storm-petrel.
		Orgeira, J. (1994) Registros del Petrel de Wilson (Oceanites oceanicus) en el Mar de Weddell, Antartida.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /WILSO.STPET.html (388 words)

	Annotated List of the Seabirds of the World -- Band-rumped Storm-petrel
		Can be separated from the even smaller European Storm-petrel by the same criteria as Wilson's Storm-petrel.
		European Storm-petrel is even more fluttering than Wilson's.
		Case, E. (1998) Evidence of Band-rumped Storm Petrels (Oceanodroma castro) off the Alabama Coast.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /BandrumpStormPet.html (678 words)

	LOS NEWS/NO. 192 - AUGUST 2000 - PAGE 2
		The storm-petrels that have occurred in Louisiana are all relatively small, uniformly blackish-brown to brown with a lighter brown or gray panel in the upper wing, and have a white rump patch.
		The tail length and tail shape of Band-rumped is similar to Wilson's, square or shallowly forked (Fig.
		As in Wilson's, the appearance of the upper wing panel is dependent on plumage wear.
	www.losbird.org /los_news_192_00aug2.htm (4828 words)

	InfoHub Forums - View Single Post - between Dakar, Senegal and Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
		Other species noted in moderate numbers included Gannets (all immatures) and Madeiran, Wilson’s and European Storm-Petrels.
		Other birds included 30 Gannets (mostly immatures), small numbers of Madeiran, Wilson’s and European Storm-Petrels, and two Sooty Shearwaters.
		A return to deep water meant it was a quieter day but sightings included a group of five Pomarine Skuas moving north, four Black and two Arctic Terns, six Madeiran Storm-Petrels (noted shearing in fast, shallow arcs in moderate wind) and, most surprisingly, a Painted Lady butterfly.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showpost.php?p=7802&postcount=1 (921 words)

	[Jerzy Dyczkowski page - Birding in Poland]
		the recent record of Wilson's Petrel proves that it is possible for rarer North Atlantic seabirds to occur as far inside the European continent as Poland).
		One bird which I considered improbable then was the Wilson's Petrel, it has appeared in Poland.
		However, since I first started such a list for myself several years ago several X species have occured in this country.
	www.birding.gt.pl /listx.html (571 words)

	InfoHub Forums - Reply to Topic
		Other seabirds include 30 Gannets (mostly immatures), small numbers of Madeiran, Wilson's and European Storm-Petrels and two Sooty Shearwaters.
		Other species noted in moderate numbers include Gannets (nearly all immatures) and Madeiran, Wilson’s and European Storm-Petrels.
		Small numbers of Madeiran Storm-Petrels are also noted, and a bonus find is a Leach’s Storm—Petrel found fluttering around inside a laboratory overnight, presumably also dazzled by the ship’s lights.
	www.infohub.com /forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=7806 (1418 words)

	Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ: Could the New Zealand Storm-petrel still exist?
		The White-bellied Storm-petrel – WBSP, Fregetta grallaria, breeds on the subtropical Kermadec and Lord Howe Island groups and very rarely strays southward to NZ, while Wilson’s and BBSP breed to the south of New Zealand and pass on migration in spring and autumn (Wilson’s in some numbers and BBSP rarely).
		It is quite possible that not all of the earlier records of ‘black and white’ Storm-petrels (BBSP and WBSP) from New Zealand waters have been correctly identified.
		Three species of black and white storm petrels have been encountered in New Zealand waters.
	www.wrybill-tours.com /idproblems/stormpet1.htm (2025 words)

	2005 ABA Directory of Pelagic Birding Trips in North America ~ Resources ~ ABA
		Expectations: Cory's, Greater, and Audubon's Shearwaters; Masked and Brown Boobies; Wilson's and Band-rumped Storm Petrel, Northern Gannet; Magnificent Frigatebird; Pomarine, Parasitic, and Long-tailed Jaegers; and Bridled Tern are all possible.
		May-Nov.: Likely: Black-capped Petrel; Cory's, Greater (sometimes doesn't arrive until June), Sooty (Spring only), and Audubon's Shearwaters; Wilson's, Leach's (May-July best), and Band-rumped (May to mid-Aug. best) Storm-Petrels; Red-necked Phalarope (mostly late May and Aug.-Sept.); Pomarine Jaeger; and Bridled and Sooty Terns (Aug.- Sept. best).
		Audubon's Shearwater; Band-Rumped Storm Petrel; Roseate, Sooty, and Bridled Terns; with luck, the elegant White-Tailed Tropicbird; Brown and Black Noddies, Brown and Masked Boobies.
	americanbirding.org /resources/2005pelagicseast.html (2933 words)

	* Storm Petrel - (Bird): Definition
		The Wilson's Storm Petrel is a mystery since it is common near the mouth of the Mississippi...
		The New Zealand storm petrel, Oceanites maorianus, thought to be extinct for more than 150 years, has been seen in the Hauraki Gulf and off the Coromandel Peninsula...
		This family contains the storm petrels which are small sea birds.
	www.bestknows.com /bird/storm_petrel.html (2933 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Wilson's Storm-Petrel
		Remarks Wilson's Storm-Petrel follows ships more readily than does Leach's Storm Petrel.
		This bird is far more frequently seen during its relatively short sojourn here than Leach's Storm Petrel.
		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).
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0019.htm (2933 words)

	Birds: Hydrobatidae
		Oceanites Keyserling and Blasius, J. Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820) - Wilson´s Storm Petrel
		Oceanodroma homochroa (Coues, 1864) - Ashy Storm Petrel
		Oceanodroma monorhis (Swinhoe, 1867) - Swinhoe´s Storm Petrel
	www.phthiraptera.org /Birds/Hydrobatidae.html (2933 words)

	May 27, 2003 Mystery Storm-Petrel off Cape Hatteras, NC - Seabirding.com
		I cannot comment on the aspects of jizz that have been raised as it is some time since I saw any numbers of European Storm Petrel or Wilson's Petrel in the field.
		The pattern exhibited in the mystery bird is classic male European Storm Petrel, with the white all the way out to the carpal including the primary undercoverts, while the classic female pattern is for the white to be restricted to the area nearest the body.
		There is, however, a short note on sexing European Storm Petrels using plumage in the Spring 2001 edition of the BTO's Ringers' Bulletin, with photographs of classic male and female underwing patterns.
	www.patteson.com /images/030527stormpetrel.htm (1881 words)

	Flight of the Storm Petrel.Ronald M.Lockley.Birdbooksdirect.com
		The strange lives of the storm petrels, smallest and most fascinating of sea birds, are being slowly unravelled on remote coasts and islands around the world.
		Leach's petrel and other fork-tails, Wilson's petrel (below) - the hardiest small bird in the world, actually burrowing into the snow blocking its Antarctic nesting crevice - and the tropical petrels, are all here.
		He writes with warmth and fluency of the tiny British (or European) petrel and its astonishing migration thousands of miles across the equator to South African seas.
	www.birdbooksdirect.com /petrel.htm (118 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- February 1999, week 3 (#79)
		Both European Storm Petrels and Wilson's were present, and it took me some days to become proficient in recognizing which is which at a glance.
		They were Spectacled Petrels, nesters from the Tristan area) Great Shearwaters, quite colourful for a seabird with their dark caps and warm brown backs, rather avoid the thickest throngs, but also compete for the outthrow.
		This is a hefty, dark, almost black petrel, with a strong conspicuous white bill and as the name says, usually a white spot under the chin.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9902c&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=5572 (1342 words)

	Northern Light Charters - The Chalice Petrel: http://www.northernlight-uk.com/cp_3
		Thus, only two of 22 minimum-wing-chord estimates are in the range for Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel, with one other equal to the longest maximum wing chord known for that species (Cubitt et al.
		Wilson’s was also seen from the Chalice on 3rd August 1988, and the dark-rumped petrel was described as substantially larger than that species.
		The image of the Chalice petrel must be sharp, and any bird with which it is to be compared must be both identifiable to species and itself comparatively sharp, too; it is important that all the birds being compared should be as nearly as possible the same distances from the camera.
	www.northernlight-uk.com /cp_3.htm (1970 words)

	Birding tours South Africa, birdwatching Cape Town, pelagics
		Throughout the year there is a reasonable chance of seeing Black-browed, Shy and Yellow-nosed Albatross; Giant and White-chinned Petrel; Sooty Shearwater; Wilson's Storm Petrel; Cape Gannet and Subantarctic Skua.
		These giants are accompanied by a host of Petrel, Shearwater, Prion, Storm Petrel, Skua, Gull, Cormorant and Tern.
		In the Southern Hemisphere winter you may get Pintado and Soft-plumaged Petrel and Antarctic Prion.
	www.birdwatch.co.za /pelagics.htm (325 words)

	Senegal gallery - Storm-petrels
		European Storm-petrel (in front) together with a Wilson's Storm-petrel.
		European Storm-petrel (note the white band on the underwing).
	senegal.seawatching.net /gallery/gal2/gal2.html (66 words)

	Petrels - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection
		Wilson's Storm petrels feed while on the wing, skimming and pattering with their feet over the sea surface.
		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.
		The Antarctic petrel is a boldly marked dark brown and white petrel, a little smaller than the Antarctic fulmar.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/birds/petrels.shtml (916 words)

	Oceanodroma castro
		The all-dark underwing would rule out a Storm Petrel and Wilson's Petrel, both of which have relatively shorter, more rounded wings.
		Hence, Madeiran Petrels are more like Leach's but their wings are not so strikingly long and angular; the white on the rump is unbroken and more extensive, and the pale panels in the upperwing are duller and less obvious.
		Unless you have lots of experience of watching other species of petrels, you would need a pretty good view to identify a Madeiran Petrel with confidence.
	www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Oceanodroma_castro.htm (236 words)

	Flight of the Storm Petrel.Ronald M.Lockley.Birdbooksdirect.com
		The strange lives of the storm petrels, smallest and most fascinating of sea birds, are being slowly unravelled on remote coasts and islands around the world.
		Leach's petrel and other fork-tails, Wilson's petrel (below) - the hardiest small bird in the world, actually burrowing into the snow blocking its Antarctic nesting crevice - and the tropical petrels, are all here.
		He writes with warmth and fluency of the tiny British (or European) petrel and its astonishing migration thousands of miles across the equator to South African seas.
	www.birdbooksdirect.com /petrel.htm (118 words)

	New Zealand Storm-petrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Zealand Storm-petrel, Oceanites maorianus, is a small seabird of the tubenose family.
		It differs from the commoner species, Wilson's Petrel, by its pale bar on the upper wing, white belly with streaking, narrow white panel on the underwings and longer legs.
		The New Zealand Petrel is a small bird, dark brown above, except for its white rump.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Storm-Petrel (353 words)

	The Dovetail Directory
		Once the initial adrenaline rush is under control, and you have fought off the crippling views of Black-browed, Shy and Yellow-nosed albatrosses, White-chinned Petrel, Cape Gannet, Sooty Shearwater and Wilson's Storm Petrel, we will sift through the clouds of birds in search of less common species.
		In summer (November - February), the Benguela attracts palearctic migrants including Cory's and Manx shearwaters, European Storm Petrel, Arctic Skua and Sabine's Gull.
		Sailing from Simonstown or Hout Bay to the fishing grounds of the highly productive Benguela current, derived from Antarctica's icy waters, you will be awed by the sheer spectacle of thousands of seabirds, of 15 to 20 different species, squabbling over scraps behind fishing trawlers.
	www.dovetaildirectory.com /DTSch.php?Code=4718 (352 words)

	Senegal - Seabird species
		Three of the five unidentified Oceanodroma-Storm-petrels passing Isle N'Gor were probably this species, according to the lower and more Shearwater-like flight style, the seemingly all-dark plumage and jizz.
		It seems that you have to coincide with the right period and also a lucky day within the period to see this species side by side with Wilson's.
		However, it took some time to understand that those loose flocks of auk-like, pale and fast flying petrel look-alikes were, in fact, not big and fat Sanderlings!
	senegal.seawatching.net /seabirds.html (3039 words)

	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Photo Gallery by Glen Tepke at pbase.com
		My wife and I were standing beside you and clearly remembered puzzling over (what proved to be) the Band-Rumped Storm Petrol.
		I do remember the bird flying higher than the Wilson's and with a different kind of flight.
	stats.pbase.com /gtepke/bandrumped_stormpetrel_0508b (97 words)

	SHEARWATER JOURNEYS 3 October 2004 Trip Report
		Highlights of the October 3rd trip, in which we repeated our great hike up to the bountiful storm-petrel spot off of Davenport were: 1420 LEAST STORM-PETRELS (the highest count ever for northern California--all of California?!), 1800 BLACK STORM-PETRELS, 4280 ASHY STORM-PETRELS, 1 WILSON'S STORM-PETREL, and 1 FORK-TAILED STORM-PETREL.
		We could even smell the musky odor of petrels.
		It was difficult to find an Ashy in this flock, as it was mostly composed of Blacks and Leasts.
	www.shearwaterjourneys.com /mb041003report.htm (97 words)

	Storm-Petrel family
		Depending on oceanic conditions, these will be joined by hundreds to thousands of Black Storm-Petrels from the south, and the occasional Least or Wilson's or Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (vagrant Wedge-rumpeds have even occurred).
		Crossin, R. The storm petrels (Hydrobatidae), in Pelagic studies of seabirds in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean (W. King, ed.), pp.154-205.
		On the Farallon Islands off San Francisco, California, for example, where I have spent a couple weeks helping research efforts, the air is alive with the sounds of returning Ashy and Leach's Storm-Petrels after dark in the summer.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/storm-petrels.html (97 words)

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