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Leach's/Townsend's/Ainley's Storm-Petrel

Oceanodroma leucorhoa

1,800Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
55Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb11
Mar9
Apr21
May37
Jun59
Jul220
Aug97
Sep630
Oct430
Nov216
Dec48

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Wirral England197
2Cornwall England159
3Norfolk England82
4Kent England71
5Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland59
6East Riding of Yorkshire England54
7Somerset England43
8Shetland Islands —39
9Pembrokeshire Wales38
10Suffolk England31
11Cambridgeshire England24
12South Ayrshire Scotland24
13Dorset England23
14Gwynedd Wales20
15Orkney Islands Scotland20
1,092 England297 Scotland91 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,800
Peak month
September
Counties with records
55
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Group
Birds
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Hydrobatidae
Genus
Oceanodroma
Name with authority
Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieillot, 1818)
Described
1818
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q211986 · GBIF 2482012