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Species
Least Concerncomma diving-petrel
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderProcellariiformes
- FamilyPelecanoididae
Habitatmarine
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pelecanoides
- Mass
- 105
- Image
- Pelecanoides urinatrix 1 - SE Tasmania.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Pelecanoides urinatrix
- taxon name
- Pelecanoides urinatrix
- Commons gallery
- Pelecanoides urinatrix
- taxon common name
- burnica njorka
- wingspan
- 0.393
- egg incubation period
- 54
- litter size
- 1
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Common Diving Petrel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.