Common Diving-petrel

Common Diving-petrel

Taxobox
name = Common Diving-petrel
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Procellariiformes
familia = Pelecanoididae
genus = "Pelecanoides"
species = "P. urinatrix"
binomial = "Pelecanoides urinatrix"
binomial_authority = (Gmelin, 1789)
The Common Diving-petrel (" Pelecanoides urinatrix"), is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Africa and islands of the southern Indian Ocean.

Breeding areasMany islands and islets off North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Solander and Snares Is; south-eastern Australian islandsBreeding seasonApril to FebruaryDispersal/migrationRanges throughout coastal waters


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