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  • Scientific names
    • Procellariiformes
  • English
    • albatrosses, petrels, and allies

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Recent Observations

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What

Northern Giant Petrel Macronectes halli

Observer

briangratwicke

Date

Mar 12, 2012 11:05 AM EDT
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What

Southern Giant Petrel Macronectes giganteus

Observer

briangratwicke

Date

Mar 12, 2012 08:17 AM EDT
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Photos

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Observer

briangratwicke

Date

Mar 11, 2012 01:53 PM EDT

Description

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Description from Wikipedia

Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, procellariids, 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). They have a cosmopolitan distribution across the world's oceans, with the highest diversity...

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