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National Natural Monument
Birds
Swinhoe's Storm Petrel
Hydrobates monorhis
Swinhoe's Storm Petrel is a small storm petrel, dark brown nearly all over. It feeds at sea on small plankton and fish and comes ashore only to incubate eggs in burrows. Sankanjima in Iwate is known as a site where it breeds together with Streaked Shearwaters, and the colony is designated a Natural Monument.
- Scientific name
- Hydrobates monorhis
- Group
- Birds
- Prefectures
- Iwate
- 日本語
- ヒメクロウミツバメ
- 简体中文
- 黑叉尾海燕
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The Swinhoe's Storm Petrel is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Iwate.
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