Common Diving Petrel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iCommon Diving Petrel
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Pelecanoididae
Genus: Pelecanoides
Species: P. urinatrix
Binomial name
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.