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Diving-petrels

Order: ProcellariiformesGeorgian Diving-Petrel

Family: Pelecanoididae

4 species

HABITAT AND RANGE:

southern oceans;

DESCRIPTION:

18-25 cm body length; wing span ca.30 cm; bill short, stout, hooked, covered with plates; nostrils tubular, opening upward; legs short, laterally compressed; hallux absent; wing-propelled divers

FOOD:

feed on oceanic animals;

BREEDING:

lay single white egg; have bi-parental care; nidicolous young; similar sexes; monogamous; nest colonially

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(Images taken from Harrison, Peter. Seabirds. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1983.)