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Common Diving-petrel

Pelecanoides urinatrix

Classification

Class
Aves

The common diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), 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. Taxonomy The common diving petrel was formally described in 1777 by the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 1,359Argentina · 197Chile · 155France · 38