
Tubenoses
Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, 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), and have a cosmopolitan distribution across the world's oceans, with...
4 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 147 known species

Shearwaters and Petrels
familyProcellariidae

Albatrosses
familyDiomedeidae

Northern Storm-Petrels
familyHydrobatidae

Southern Storm-Petrels
familyOceanitidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 67565.