diving petrel
pelecanoides latin

The only Procellariiformes that do not are the diving petrels.

The diving petrels are seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.

Many taxonomists used to retain the diving petrels in this family also, but today their distinctiveness is considered well supported.

It was long thought, that the Peruvian Diving Petrel is rather bad in flying.

Diving petrels are auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans.

The family Pelecanoididae is the four species of diving petrels, genus Pelacanoides.

The Common Diving Petrel is found between latitudes 35 and 55 degrees south, mostly around islands.

The remaining percentage of the Peruvian Diving Petrels food is fish, mainly anchovies.

This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.

"The most proficient divers of the order Procellariformes are likely to be the diving petrels in the family Pelecanoididae.

At sea, in the Westerlies the ship is followed by several species of albatrosses, storm petrels, shearwaters and diving petrels.

Diving petrels occurred in the Miocene, with a species from that family (Pelecanoides miokuaka) being described in 2007.

Fossil species found there include invertebrates and also a type of rhinoceros, as well as a mousebird and a diving petrel.

This flight is low over the water and diving petrels will fly through the crests of waves without any interruption of their flight path.

Family Pelecanoididae (diving petrels) are small with short bills and wings, and a whirring flight low over the water and through wave-crests.

Other species, such as some of the storm petrels, diving petrels and cormorants, never disperse at all, staying near their breeding colonies year round.

Some pursuit divers rely predominantly on their wings for thrust production during swimming in addition to while in flight include auks, diving petrels, and penguins.

The Peruvian Diving Petrel has become locally extinct on many of its former colonies and nests nowadays only on a few offshore islands.

Mottled Petrel, Diving Petrel and Broad-billed Prion are all also in the vicinity.

The diving petrels are a clade, but within a larger clade of true petrels that also contains the gadfly petrels.

These species, which include the albatrosses, petrels, diving petrels, storm petrels, fulmars and shearwaters, are widely known as "tubenoses".

The German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin described the Common Diving Petrel in 1789.

Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, storm petrels, and diving petrels.

Mollymawks are albatrosses in the Diomedeidae family and Procellariiformes order, which also includes shearwaters, fulmars, storm petrels, and diving petrels.

Albatrosses belong to Diomedeidae family and come from the Procellariiformes order, along with shearwaters, fulmars, storm petrels, and diving petrels.

The specific epithet pelecanoides refers to the pelican, as the fish's large mouth is reminiscent of that of the bird.

The Magellanic Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides magellani), is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans.

The name, by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, derives from the South Georgia Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) which nests nearby.

There are four very similar species all in the family Pelecanoididae and genus Pelecanoides (Lacépède, 1799), distinguished only by small differences in the coloration of their plumage and their bill construction.