Common diving-petrel / Lummensturmvogel (Pelecanoides urinatrix)

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Pelecanoides (Pelecanoides); Family Pelecanoididae (Pelecanoididae)
General:

The common diving-petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), also known as the smaller diving-petrel or simply the diving-petrel, is a diving petrel, one of five 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. [more]