Common Diving Petrel
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Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789) |
The Common Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), is a diving petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Africa and islands of the southern Indian Ocean.