Order
Procellariiformes (Tubenoses)
Hydrobates leucorhous. Photo: (c) pleasantbaymac, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, storm petrels, and diving petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English, they are often referred to collectively as the petrels, a term that has been applied to all Procellariiformes, or more commonly all the families except the albatrosses. They are almost exclusively pelagic (feeding in the open ocean), and have a cosmopolitan distribution across the world’s oceans, with…
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