Common Diving-Petrel

Pelecanoides urinatrix

The common diving petrel , also known as the smaller diving petrel or simply the diving petrel, is a diving petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Atlantic islands and islands of the subantarctic southern Indian Ocean, islands and islets off New Zealand and south-eastern Australian islands.

Scientific name

Pelecanoides urinatrix

Family

Shearwaters and Petrels

IUCN status

LC