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The breeding of Leach’s Storm Petrel Hydrobates leucorhous in the Southern Hemisphere.


Authors

LES G. UNDERHILL

Citation

LES G. UNDERHILL 2024. The breeding of Leach’s Storm Petrel Hydrobates leucorhous in the Southern Hemisphere.. Marine Ornithology 52: 275 - 276
http://doi.org/10.5038/2074-1235.52.2.1592

Received 04 March 2024, accepted 16 April 2024

Date Published: 2024/10/15
Date Online: 2024/10/04
Key words: Dyer Island, Chatham Islands, South Shetland Island, extra-limital breeding, colonization

Abstract

It is likely that Leach's Storm Petrels Hydrobates leucorhous have bred at widely scattered locations in the Southern Hemisphere. The potential for this Vulnerable species to improve its conservation status by encouraging the colonization of Southern Hemisphere localities needs to be investigated.

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