Nature Notes

November 18, 2008

Common Diving-Petrel: Argentina Pelagic

Filed under: Argentina, Pelagic, Species Account — Harold Stiver @ 7:00 am
Common Diving-Petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix

Common Diving-Petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix

The Common Diving-Petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix, is one of four members of the Diving-Petrel family, all small fish eating birds found in the southern hemisphere.

It ranges widely including Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands, and the Magellanic straits of Argentina and Chile. This image was taken in the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego.

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