Procellariiformes

Diving-petrels (Pelecanoididae)

HBW 1, p. 272 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 1 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Small, stocky seabirds with short wings and tail and "tubenose".
• Circumpolar in Southern Ocean.
• Subantarctic marine waters, inshore and offshore.
• 1 genus, 4 species, 9 taxa.
• 1 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.