BirdUp · Species
Common Diving Petrel
Pelecanoides urinatrix(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Pelecanoides
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The common diving petrel , also known as the smaller diving petrel or simply the diving petrel, is a diving petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Atlantic islands and islands of the subantarctic southern Indian Ocean, islands and islets off New Zealand and south-eastern Australian islands.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Islands of subtropical to subantarctic Atlantic, Indian and south-west Pacific
- Non-breeding range
- Temperate and subantarctic southern oceans around south South America and to south-east of New Zealand region
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
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- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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