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diving petrelnounA stocky auklike seabird of southern oceans, having black upper parts and white underparts.- Family Pelecanoididae and genus Pelecanoides: four species, in particular the common (or northern) diving petrel (P. urinatrix).
Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish....- Morphologically, the diving petrels resemble northern auks much more than they resemble other procellariiform birds.
- As expected groups such as the albatrosses, diving petrels, gadfly petrels, prions, and shearwaters were all monophyletic.
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