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    The Peruvian diving petrel (Pelecanoides garnotii) (local name in Peru: potoyunco) is a small seabird that feeds in offshore waters in the Humboldt Current...
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    is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part...
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    Markham's storm petrel (Hydrobates markhami) is a seabird native to the Pacific Ocean around Peru, Chile, and Ecuador. The species is named after British...
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    ingens is endemic to Deserta Grande. The island has breeding Cory's shearwaters, Bulwer's petrels and Madeiran storm-petrels. Bugio Island Ilhéu Chão —...
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    white-faced storm-petrel (>80,000), Bulwer's petrel (approximately 4000), North Atlantic little shearwater (1400), Madeiran storm-petrel (1500), yellow-legged...
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    colonies. These include Fea's and Bulwer's petrels, Cory's and Barolo shearwaters, band-rumped storm petrels, common terns and Caspian gulls. Islands of...
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    reserve) and is one of the few breeding locations of the band-rumped storm petrel. A new endemic species of snail, Oestophora barrelsi spec. nov was described...
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    South American tern kelp gull Chilean skua Magellanic diving-petrel common diving-petrel Beagle Channel seen from above Puerto Williams Sea Lions Island...
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    comprises four families: the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses...
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    Diablotins shares its name with the local term for the rare black-capped petrel (Pterodroma hasitata). List of mountains of Dominica List of volcanoes in...
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  • endangered Fea's petrel (petrel gongón), Pterodroma feae (A) Black-capped petrel (petrel antillano), Pterodroma hasitata (A) Bulwer's petrel (petrel de Bulwer)...
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  • penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) Seabirds: Albatross Sheathbills Cormorants Petrels Seagulls Prions Skuas Terns The Kerguelen Islands are covered by France's...
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    arminjoniana (R) Black-capped petrel, Pterodroma hasitata (R) Stejneger's petrel, Pterodroma longirostris (R) White-chinned petrel, Procellaria aequinoctialis...
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    Bernard Île Curie Île Cuvier Île de la Vierge Île des Damiers Île des Pétrels Île du Bélier Île du Capricorne Île du Gouverneur Île du Lion Île du Navigateur...
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    soft-plumaged, white-chinned and blue petrels, medium-billed prions, northern giant petrels, common diving petrels, Crozet blue-eyed shags and Kerguelen...
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    than 100 m without a permit. The island has breeding Desertas petrels. Deserta Grande Island Ilhéu Chão — Chão islet. Madeirabirds.com: Desertas Islands...
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  • glacialis (fulmar boréal) Fea's petrel, Pterodroma feae (pétrel gongon) (A) Bulwer's petrel, Bulweria bulwerii (pétrel de Bulwer) (A) Scopoli's shearwater...
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  • at an oceanic seabird colony: estimating predatory impact upon breeding petrels". European Journal of Wildlife Research. 56 (6): 861–869. doi:10.1007/s10344-010-0384-y...
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    Territorial status Area Administered by Also claimed by mi2 km2 Bajo Nuevo Bank (Petrel Island) 1869 Unincorporated, unorganized (disputed sovereignty) 56 145  Colombia...
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    fired on the transport Mindanao, whose crew immediately abandoned ship. The Petrel fired on the government offices next to the arsenal and a white flag was...
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    archipelago for southern giant petrels. It also holds very large populations of smaller petrels, especially white-headed petrels, slender-billed and Antarctic...
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    principal island of American Samoa. It is a nesting site for rare species of petrels, shearwaters, and terns; and at the signing of the order establishing the...
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    Mont Panié is a mountain on the island of Grande Terre in New Caledonia, a special collectivity of France located in the south-west Pacific Ocean. At 1...
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    Southern Ocean by France". Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. 24 April 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017. "North-East Greenland". Protected...
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    Neotropic cormorant (category Birds of the Rio Grande valleys)
    the species by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789. He placed it with the petrels in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria brasiliana...
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    Midway on June 4, 1942, was found within the monument by the research vessel Petrel. In 2020 a species of seaweed was discovered that has been killing large...
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    breeding in the site include northern giant petrels, Kerguelen terns, light-mantled albatrosses, white-chinned petrels and Kerguelen shags. O’Rourke, Kevin (2008-02-29)...
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    Presqu'île Loranchet, (Loranchet Peninsula in English) is a peninsula of Grande Terre, the main island of the subantarctic Kerguelen archipelago in the...
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  • (Guadalupe storm petrel) Oreophasis derbianus (horned guan) Patagioenas inornata wetmorei (Puerto Rican plain pigeon) Pterodroma cahow (Bermuda petrel) Pterodroma...
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    the duck Eaton's pintail. Other birds include black-faced sheathbills, petrels, and albatross, including the wandering albatross. Mammals living on the...
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