Leach
Leach’s Storm Petrel, Oceanodroma leucorhoa, is a widespread member of the Storm-Petrel Family. They have a dark plumage with a white rump, although there are populations which have a darker rump.
They are highly pelagic and don’t normally follow ships.
It breeds on northern hemisphere islands of the Atlantic and Pacific and only returns to the nest at night.
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