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Petrels are tube-nosed
seabirds in the
phylogenetic order Procellariiformes.
Petrels are a
monophyletic group of
marine seabirds,
sharing a characteristic...
- rain, The
petrel telleth her tale—in vain! From "The
Stormy Petrel", a poem by
Barry Cornwall The two
families are:
Northern storm petrels (Hydrobatidae)...
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migrating Leach's
petrels into this bay.
British ornithologists Robert Atkinson and John
Ainslie observed the
communities of Leach's
petrel on the remote...
- 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...
- The
family was once
lumped with the
similar austral storm petrels in the
combined storm petrels, but have been split, as they were not
closely related....
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analysis of
feather lice
taken from Fea's
petrels,
Pterodroma feae deserti, from
Bugio Island, and from Zino's
petrels from the
Madeiran mainland showed that...
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comprises four families: the albatrosses, the
petrels and shearwaters, and two
families of
storm petrels.
Formerly called Tubinares and
still called tubenoses...
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Austral storm petrels, or
southern storm petrels, are
seabirds in the
family Oceanitidae, part of the
order Procellariiformes.
These smallest of seabirds...
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Stormy petrel is an
alternate term for
Storm petrel, the name for two
families of
petrels Stormy Petrel may also
refer to: The
Stormy Petrel, nickname...
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Atlantic petrels".
British Birds. 76 (4): 161–174. Withers, P.C. (1979). "Aerodynamics and
hydrodynamics of the 'hovering'
flight of Wilson's
Storm Petrel" (PDF)...
