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Oceanodroma matsudairae (Matsudaira's
storm-petrel)
Oosterse stormswael [Afrikaans]; Japans stormvogeltje
[Dutch]; Océanite de Matsudaira [French]; Matsudaira-Sturmschwalbe [German];
Painho de Matsudaira [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Ciconiiformes
> Family: Hydrobatidae
Distribution and habitat
Breeds at Bonin and North Volcano Island in the North-west
Pacific in the period from January-June, dispersing east to the Philippines and
south through Indonesia to the tropical Indian Ocean. It is a rare vagrant to
southern Africa, with two records: one off Durban, KwaZulu-Natal in July 1998
and the other off Cape Point, Western Cape in May 2001.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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