| Scientific Name |  Click photo to enlarge. Photo by Steve McConnell. |
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| Oceanodroma castro (Harcourt) - ATBI Database: Specimen Records | |||||
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| Band-rumped Storm-Petrel | |||||
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | |
| Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Procellariiformes | Hydrobatidae | |
| Animals | Chordates | Birds | Albatrosses, Shearwaters, and Allies | Storm-Petrels | |
This oceanic species that nests on islands in the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean is probably the most unusual bird species to be detected in the Smokies. The one park record is of three individuals found in late September 1975 around the passage of Hurricane Eloise through the area (Robinson 1990). This species has been found washed inland by powerful hurricanes and tropical storms on rare occasions in other locations.
DISTRIBUTION
In Park: Three individuals dead or near death found on 441; an accidental species far out of its range.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Photographs
Alabama Ornithological Society photo by Steve McConnell.Text
Paul E. Super, 2005.
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REFERENCES
Robinson, John C. 1990. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Gough, G. A., Sauer, J. R., Iliff, M. Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter. 1998. Version 97.1. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD.
