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Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the phylogenetic order Procellariiformes. Petrels are a monophyletic group of marine seabirds, sharing a characteristic

rain, The petrel telleth her tale—in vain! From "The Stormy Petrel", a poem by Barry Cornwall The two families are: Northern storm petrels (Hydrobatidae)

Storm Petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa. Marine Ornithology 47: 55–65 Leach’s Storm Petrel - The Atlas of Southern African Birds Leach's storm-petrel [Oceanodroma

Diomedeidae, the petrels and shearwater in the family Procellariidae and the southern storm petrels in the family Oceanitidae. The northern storm petrels are more

more closely related to the South Georgian and Peruvian diving petrels. The diving petrels bear strong resemblances to the smaller auk species (i.e. the

The family was once lumped with the similar austral storm petrels in the combined storm petrels, but have been split, as they are not closely related. These

analysis of feather lice taken from Fea's petrels, Pterodroma feae deserti, from Bugio Island, and from Zino's petrels from the Madeiran mainland showed that

comprises four families: the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses

Atlantic petrels". British Birds. 76 (4): 161–174. Withers, P.C. (1979). "Aerodynamics and hydrodynamics of the 'hovering' flight of Wilson's Storm Petrel" (PDF)

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