Markham's storm-petrel (Oceanodroma markhami)

Wikipedia: Markham's storm-petrel Source: OTHER MarkhamSP.jpeg
Classification: Genus Oceanodroma; Subfamily Storm petrels (Hydrobatidae); Order Petrels and albatrosses (Procellariiformes); Infraclass Neognathae; Class Birds (aves); Subphylum Vertebrata; Phylum Chordate (Chordata); Kingdom Animal (Animalia); Domain Eukaryota
General: Markham's storm petrel (Oceanodroma markhami) is a species of storm petrel in the family Hydrobatidae. An all black to sooty brown seabird, Markham's storm petrel is difficult to differentiate from the black petrel Procellaria parkinsoni in life, and was once described as conspecific with, or biologically identical to, Tristram's storm petrel Oceanodroma tristrami. Markham's storm petrel inhabits open seas in the Pacific Ocean around Peru, Chile, and Ecuador, but only nests in northern Chile and Peru, with ninety-five percent of all known breeding populations in 2019 found in the Atacama Desert. First described by British ornithologist Osbert Salvin in 1883, the bird was named in honor of Albert Hastings Markham, a naval officer who collected a specimen off Peru. [more]

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