List of Non-passerine Birds of Korea - Storm Petrels

Storm Petrels

Order: Procellariidae Family: Hydrobatidae

It breeds on islands in the northwest Pacific off China, Japan and Korea. It nests in colonies close to the sea in rock crevices and lays a single white egg. It spends the rest of the year at sea, ranging into the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea.It is essentially dark brown in all plumages, and has a fluttering flight, pattering on the water surface as it picks planktonic food items from the ocean surface.

  • Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma monorhis


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