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Common Diving Petrel

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Common Diving Petrel

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Also known as Pelecanoides urinatrix

species of bird

Species

Least Concern

comma diving-petrel

Species

  1. PhylumChordata
  2. ClassAves
  3. OrderProcellariiformes
  4. FamilyPelecanoididae
Habitatmarine

via IUCN

Wikidata facts

Mass
105
Image
Pelecanoides urinatrix 1 - SE Tasmania.jpg
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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
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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.

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