What is Wilson's storm petrel?
{{Taxobox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{IUCN|id=22698436 |title=''Oceanites oceanicus'' |assessors=[[BirdLife International]] |version=2015.2 |year=2012 |accessdate=20 July 2015}}</ref> | image = Oceanites_oceanicus_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[bird|Aves]] | ordo = [[Procellariiformes]] | familia = [[Hydrobatidae]] | subfamilia = [[Oceanitinae]] | genus = ''[[Oceanites]]'' | species = '''''O. oceanicus''''' | binomial = ''Oceanites oceanicus'' | binomial_authority = [[Heinrich Kuhl|Kuhl]], 1820 | range_map = OceanitesDistribution.svg | range_map_caption = Distribution range (blue) }} The '''Wilson's storm-petrel''' (''Oceanites oceanicus''), also known as '''Wilson's petrel''', is a small [[seabird]] of the [[storm petrel]] family, the Hydrobatidae. It is one of the most abundant bird species in the world and has a circumpolar distribution mainly in the seas of the [[southern hemisphere]] but extending northwards during the summer of the [[northern hemisphere]]. The world population has been estimated to be more than 50 million pairs.<ref>{{cite book|last=Newton|first=Ian| year=1998| page=[https://archive.org/details/populationlimita00newt/page/n13 3]| title=Population limitation in birds|url=https://archive.org/details/populationlimita00newt| publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780080879239}}</ref> The name commemorates the Scottish-American ornithologist [[Alexander Wilson]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Procellariiformes]] [[Category:Seabirds]]