Shearwaters, fulmars, gadfly petrels

Order: Procellariiformes

Family: Procellariidae

66 species

HABITAT AND RANGE:

Oceans worldwide

DESCRIPTION:

Bill hooked, covered with plates; nostrils tubular, opening forward; wings long, pointed; tail short; hallux minute; dynamic soarers, with considerable flapping flight in some species

FOOD:

Shallow surface divers, feeding primarily upon invertebrates and small fish

BREEDING:

Most species burrow nesters

SOUNDS:

Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea calling

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