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PetrelRelated Category: Vertebrate Zoology (p´trl), common name given various oceanic birds belonging, like the albatross and the shearwater, to the order known commonly as tube-nosed swimmers.
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Petrels are archaic oceanic forms, with great powers of flight, dispersed throughout all the seas and oceans of the world, and some species apparently never resort to land except for the purpose of nidification, ...
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Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes. The common name does not indicate relationship beyond that point, as " petrels" occur in three of the four families within that group (except the Albatross family, Diomedeidae).
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Petrel Name given to various ocean birds belonging, like the albatross and shearwater , to the order of tube nosed swimmers. Many petrels fly over the waves skinning closely that they give the appearance of walking on the water.
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A small petrel, pale grey above and white below with bold black markings under the wing and a black patch around each eye. Bill black, legs and feet pale flesh coloured, eye brown.
Location and habitat ...
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Petrels and shearwaters (Hydrobatidae) Overview The leach's petrel is a starling-sized seabird. Birds are all black underneath and mostly black above, apart from a white rump. It has a forked tail. The white rump has a black line down it.
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Petrels is the common name for members of three families of seabirds: the storm petrels (Hydrobatidae), the diving petrels (Pelecanoididae), and members of a family (Procellariidae) that also includes the fulmars and shearwaters.
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Petrels breed once a year in large colonies on remote offshore or oceanic islands.
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This petrel is a member of a large order of seabirds, the Procellariiformes, long-winged pelagic birds that are characterized by their tube-shaped nostrils.
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Grey PetrelCredit: Wikipedia Download full size image The Grey Petrel (Procellaria cinerea), also known as the Puffin Gris or Pardela Gris, is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family.
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Bonin Petrel
The first night on the island we arrived about 10 PM. While the sport fishing and scuba diving fanatics scurried to find their rooms, ...
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LEAST PETREL.--MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN. [British Storm-Petrel.] THALASSIDROMA PELAGICA, Linn. [Hydrobates pelagicus.] ...
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Storm-petrels, better known to many as "Mother Carey's chickens" or "careys," were sometimes disliked by the keepers of island lighthouses, who were often wholly dependent on rain water for domestic use.
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Storm Petrels - Family Hydrobatidae Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus. Fairly common in summer in Gulf Coast region. Pelagic. Found in the Gulf.
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Giant Petrels are often seen around Stanley and other settlements scavenging for debris throughout the year, but their main diet comprises of squid and crustaceans at sea, the eggs and chicks of seabirds, and carrion. Sexes are similar in appearance.
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Stormy Petrel
104. Procellaria pelagica Linn. STORMY PETREL. Ad.--Upper parts, wings, and tail sooty black; under parts slightly browner; upper tail-coverts white, the longer ones broadly tipped with black; under tail-coverts mixed with whitish; ...
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White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Spectacled Petrel, Ring-eyed Shoemaker, Shoemaker, Cape Hen
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
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Common Diving-petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix
Chilean name: Yunco de los canales ...
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Fea’s (Soft-plumaged) Petrel Pterodroma (mollis) feae Rare passage seabird. To date there have been ten records and all at the Bridges of Ross. 2005: One on 13th August. One on 14th August. One on 25th August. One on 26th August.
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Petrel, Galápagos (Pterodroma phaeopygia)
Galápagos Islands: Maui, Hawaii
Critically endangered ...
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The Bermuda Petrel is also threatened by hurricanes. The Kakapo is recovering from near extinction. Sources: ...
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Owls stalking petrels Galapagos A unique hunting strategy as Galapagos short-eared owls hunt petrels.
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Wilson's Storm Petrel Spring Sighting Information: rare Nest on or near Refuge? no Eastern Wood-Pewee Spring Sighting Information: common Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
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Habitat: Bermuda Petrels formerly excavated inland nesting burrows, in sand or soft soils, but introduced predators preclude them from occupying this habitat.
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The molecular evidence suggests that the storm-petrels were the first to diverge from the ancestral stock, and the albatrosses next, with the procellarids and diving petrels separating later.
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Therefore four apparently distinctive but as yet undescribed Mascarene forms are discounted: a fody from Réunion and a petrel, a bulbul and a babbler from Rodrigues (Cheke 1987, Cowles 1987).
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Streaked Shearwater, Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel, loons (spring), Japanese Murrelet (spring), Japanese Wood Pigeon, Oriental Scops Owl, Black-capped Kingfisher (spring), pipits, wagtails, shrikes, Japanese, Rufous-tailed & Siberian Blue Robin, ...
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The name 'muttonbird' was first used by the early settlers on Norfolk Island, who each year harvested adult providence petrels Pterodroma solandri for food. The petrels were similar to but larger than the short-tailed shearwater.
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They have been implicated in the extinction of several species and local extinctions, such as the huitas from the Caribbean and the Guadeloupe Storm-petrel from Pacific Mexico.
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Texas has two records for Yellow-nosed Albatross and even a record for White-chinned Petrel. The PO'C trips are overdue for either tropicbird ( a Red-billed Tropicbird was seen on a Venice, LA trip on June 9, 1996).
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Procellariidae - Petrels, Shearwaters, and FulmarBlack-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) - off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC 5/31/07 Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) - off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC 5/31/07 ...
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Shearwaters, fulmars and petrels make up this family. These birds are gull-sized with long wings. Species in this family: Audubon's Shearwater ( Puffinus lherminieri) Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) ...
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Kiwis, some Hummingbirds, and some species of Storm-Petrel regularly lay eggs that represent 25% of their body weight.
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Turtles have been determined to evolve with just one-eighth of the speed of other reptiles on the molecular level, and the rate of molecular evolution in albatrosses is half of what is found in the rather closely related storm-petrels.
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 See also: Shearwater, Storm-Petrel, Penguin, Pigeon, Grebe
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