The diving petrels form a genus, Pelecanoides, of seabirds in the family Procellariidae. There are four very similar species of diving petrels, distinguished only by small differences in the coloration of their plumage, habitat, and bill construction. They are only found in the southern hemisphere. The diving petrels were formerly placed in their own family, the Pelecanoididae.
Diving petrels are auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. The resemblances with the auks are due to convergent evolution, since both families feed by pursuit diving, although some researchers have in the past suggested that the similarities are due to relatedness. Among the Procellariiformes the diving petrels are the family most adapted to life in the sea rather than flying over it, and are generally found closer inshore than other families in the order.
The divingpetrels form a genus, Pelecanoides, of seabirds in the family Procellariidae. There are four very similar species of divingpetrels, distinguished...
The Peruvian divingpetrel (Pelecanoides garnotii) (local name in Peru: potoyunco) is a small seabird that feeds in offshore waters in the Humboldt Current...
The Magellanic diving-petrel (Pelecanoides magellani) is a species of divingpetrel, one of five very similar, small, auk-like petrels found exclusively...
South Georgia divingpetrel or Georgian diving-petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) is one of five very similar small auk-like divingpetrels of the southern...
gadfly petrels, the divingpetrels, the prions, and the shearwaters), Hydrobatidae (Northern storm petrel), and the Oceanitidae (Austral storm petrel). The...
is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the divingpetrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part...
Hou diving-petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus whenuahouensis) known also as Kuaka, is a highly endangered subspecies of the South Georgia divingpetrel that...
Pelecanoides miokuaka is an extinct species of divingpetrel of New Zealand. Described in 2007, it is known only from a single humerus bone that was discovered...
this technique is rare. Some diving birds may aid diving by beginning with a plunge from the air, but for the most part petrels are active divers and use...
gull South American tern kelp gull Chilean skua Magellanic diving-petrel common diving-petrel Beagle Channel seen from above Puerto Williams Sea Lions Island...
Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and divingpetrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely...
foot-propelled diving birds. Other diving birds are wing-propelled; penguins (Sphenisciformes), dippers (Cinclus), auks (Alcidae) and divingpetrels (Pelecanoides)...
caerulea), Wilson’s storm-petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), common divingpetrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), South Georgian diving-petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus)...
include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull and sooty oystercatcher. Brothers, Nigel;...
include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Cape...
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