Leach's Petrel

Leach's Petrel

Oceanodroma leucorhoa

<5% · Rare
overall probability at Kenai Fjords National Park
17 Verified records at Kenai Fjords National Park
September Best month highest sighting rate
☀️ Diurnal When it's active during daytime hours (6am–6pm)

<5% of wildlife watchers report a Leach's Petrel sighting in Kenai Fjords National Park, based on 17 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

📅 Monthly Probability

<5
Jan
<5
Feb
<5
Mar
<5
Apr
<5
May
<5
Jun
<5
Jul
<5
Aug
10–20
Sep
<5
Oct
<5
Nov
<5
Dec

☀️ When They're Spotted

Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)

☀️Diurnal
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Isla del Coco National Park 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
<5%
2 Cabo Blanco Absolute Nature Reserve 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
<5%
3 Channel Islands National Park 🇺🇸 United States
<5%
4 Kenai Fjords National Park 🇺🇸 United States
<5%
5 Great Bear Rainforest 🇨🇦 Canada
<5%
6 Acadia National Park 🇺🇸 United States
<5%
7 Wadden Sea National Park 🇩🇪 Germany
<5%
8 Redwood National Park 🇺🇸 United States
Insufficient data
9 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park 🇺🇸 United States
Insufficient data
10 Cape Breton Highlands National Park 🇨🇦 Canada
Insufficient data
11 El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve 🇲🇽 Mexico
Insufficient data
12 Pacific Rim National Park Reserve 🇨🇦 Canada
Insufficient data
13 Cairngorms National Park 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Insufficient data
14 Vatnajokull National Park 🇮🇸 Iceland
Insufficient data
15 Galápagos Islands 🇪🇨 Ecuador
Insufficient data
16 Olympic National Park 🇺🇸 United States
Insufficient data

Quick answers

What are the chances of seeing a Leach's Petrel in Kenai Fjords National Park?

About 2% of wildlife watchers report a Leach's Petrel sighting in Kenai Fjords National Park, based on 17 days of visitor records from GBIF citizen-science data.

When is the best time to see Leach's Petrel in Kenai Fjords National Park?

September has the highest sighting rate for Leach's Petrel in Kenai Fjords National Park in our monthly data.

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