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South Georgia Diving-petrel

Pelecanoides georgicus

Classification

Class
Aves

The South Georgia diving petrel or Georgian diving-petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) is one of five very similar small auk-like diving petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to the South Atlantic and islands of the southern Indian Ocean and south-eastern Australia. Taxonomy and nomenclature The American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy and the zoologist Francis Harper described the South Georgia diving petrel in 1916.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 652France · 16