Giant petrels form a genus, Macronectes, from the family Procellariidae, which consists of two living and one extinct species. They are the largest birds...
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The northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli), also known as Hall's giant petrel, is a large, predatory seabird of the southern oceans. Its range overlaps...
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The southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus), also known as the Antarctic giant petrel, giant fulmar, stinker, and stinkpot, is a large seabird of...
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The passage hosts whales, dolphins, and seabirds including giant petrels, other petrels, albatrosses, and penguins. The presence of the Drake Passageway...
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Procellariidae (redirect from Burrowing petrels)
the storm petrels. The procellariids are the most numerous family of tubenoses, and the most diverse. They range in size from the giant petrels with a wingspan...
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Miocene. The huge giant petrels, genus Macronectes, which are convergent with the albatrosses The true fulmars, genus Fulmarus Antarctic petrel Thalassoica...
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Macronectes tinae is an extinct species of giant petrel from the Pliocene of New Zealand. Although clearly belonging to the genus Macronectes, this species...
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storm petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus), also known as British storm petrel, or just storm petrel, is a species of seabird in the northern storm petrel family...
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Albatross (redirect from Giant Albatross)
Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely...
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Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the genus Hydrobates in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. The family was once lumped...
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