#0857 · 🐦 birds
Leach's Storm-Petrel
🇳🇱 Vaal Stormvogeltje ·Hydrobates leucorhous
📍 Canada
📍 Matinicus Isle, Maine 04851, EE. UU.
📍 Holyrood, NL, Canada
📍 Benwee, Kilcummin, Co. Mayo, Ireland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © pleasantbaymac · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Mark Dennis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Nick Tepper · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Canada:© Maxwell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Matinicus Isle, Maine 04851, EE. UU.:© Tomás Tamagno · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Holyrood, NL, Canada:© IanLJones · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Benwee, Kilcummin, Co. Mayo, Ireland:© seabirder · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Leach's storm petrel or Leach's petrel ( Hydrobates leucorhous ) is a small seabird of the tubenose order. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek. Hydrobates is from hydōr "water", and batēs "walker", and leucorhous is from leukos , "white" and orrhos , "rump". It was formerly defined in the genus Oceanodroma before that genus was synonymized with Hydrobates .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 10 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,847 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Leach's Storm-Petrel
- Nederlands
- Vaal Stormvogeltje
- scientific name
- Hydrobates leucorhous
- class
- Aves
- order
- Procellariiformes
- family
- Hydrobatidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 10
- sightings in Europe
- 170
- sightings worldwide
- 1,847
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Hydrobatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1289622, Wikidata Q28114551, GBIF 9461262, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.