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Common Name

Common Diving Petrel

Alternate Names

Common Type

Petrel

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae

Genus

Pelecanoides

Species

urinatrix

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Location Photographed

South Georgia,

Number of Sub-Species

Six Sub Species

Migratory or Resident

Migratory

Preferred Habitat

Nests in burrows on remote southern islands then flies over the southern oceans

Distribution and Range

Nests on south Atlantic islands and islands of subantarctic southern Indian Ocean and New Zealand, then flies the southern oceans

Food

Dive for vertically migrating plankton.

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