Wilson's storm-petrel / Buntfuß-Sturmschwalbe (Oceanites oceanicus)

Wikipedia: Wilson's storm-petrel Source: OTHER 1200px-Oceanites_oceanicus_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg
Classification: Genus Oceanites; Subfamily Storm petrels (Hydrobatidae); Order Petrels and albatrosses (Procellariiformes); Infraclass Neognathae; Class Birds (aves); Subphylum Vertebrata; Phylum Chordate (Chordata); Kingdom Animal (Animalia); Domain Eukaryota
This bird appears across the great seas in the following continents: Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia.
General: Wilson's storm petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), also known as Wilson's petrel, is a small seabird of the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae. It is one of the most abundant bird species in the world and has a circumpolar distribution mainly in the seas of the southern hemisphere but extending northwards during the summer of the northern hemisphere. The world population has been estimated to be more than 50 million pairs.^[2] The name commemorates the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson. The genus name Oceanites refers to the mythical Oceanids, the three thousand daughters of Tethys. The species name is from Latin oceanus, "ocean".^[3] [more]

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