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Common Diving-Petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix)

Common Diving-Petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix)
Common Diving-Petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix)

About Common Diving-Petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Tubenoses
  • Family: Shearwaters and Petrels

The common diving petrel , also known as the smaller diving petrel or simply the diving petrel, is a diving petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Atlantic islands and islands of the subantarctic southern Indian Ocean, islands and islets off New Zealand and south-eastern Australian islands.

Source: Wikipedia

Visits

  • 2012-01-03

    Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Image from 2012-01-03
  • 2012-01-20

    Kaikoura, New Zealand
  • 2021-12-02

    Drake Passage, Antarctica
    Image from 2021-12-02