Petrel - Wikipedia
Petrels are a paraphyletic group of marine seabirds, sharing a characteristic of a nostril arrangement that results in the name "tubenoses". [2] .
Petrel | Seabird, Migration, Adaptations | Britannica
Petrel, any of a number of seabirds of the order Procellariiformes, particularly certain members of the family Procellariidae, which also includes the fulmars and the shearwaters. Members of the family Hydrobatidae are increasingly called storm petrels; those of the Pelecanoididae are usually.
Petrel - Description, Habitat, Image, Diet, and Interesting Facts
The Petrel is actually a group that includes a number of different types of seabirds. Researchers divide these birds into three different families, one of which they share with shearwaters . There are Petrels in the Procellariidae family, the Hydrobatidae family, and the Oceanitidae family.
Procellariiformes - Wikipedia
Procellariiformes / prɒsɛˈlɛəri.ɪfɔːrmiːz / is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels.
Wilson's Storm-Petrel - All About Birds
Don't let the dainty Wilson’s Storm-Petrel deceive you—this is one of the world’s hardiest seabirds, at home in the stormy Antarctic as well as the North Atlantic. Barely bigger than swallows, these small, dark brown birds with white tail coverts flutter and glide across oceans in search of plankton.
Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Audubon Field Guide
Despite its small size and seemingly weak flight, this bird is at home on the roughest of seas, flying in the troughs of the waves during gales. It also travels huge distances -- from the Antarctic to the edge of the Arctic.
Procellariidae - Wikipedia
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses and the storm petrels.
Mottled Petrel | Audubon Field Guide
Nesting only on islands around New Zealand, this species wanders widely in the Pacific. A few reach Alaska's offshore waters in summer, and there are records far off the coast south to California, mostly in winter.
Black-capped Petrel - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Known as one of the gadfly petrels because of their speedy, weaving flight, black-capped petrels are widely distributed and travel long distances to foraging areas in the western Atlantic and southern Caribbean basins and the central and northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
Black-capped Petrel | Audubon Field Guide
Flies fast, with deceptively slow wingbeats, long glides, high arcs. Pattern suggests Greater Shearwater, but Black-capped Petrel has smaller black cap, usually more white on collar and rump, longer tail, black bar on underwing. Usually silent at sea. Open ocean.
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