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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Birds
  5. Albatrosses, Petrels, and Allies
  6. Shearwaters and Petrels

family

Shearwaters and Petrels

Procellariidae

Includes
11 native 9 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Southern Shearwaters 7 native
  • Fulmars 1 native
  • Small Shearwaters 1 native
  • Pterodroma Petrels 1 native
  • Bulwer's and Jouanin's Petrels 1 native
  • Large Shearwaters
  • Giant Petrels
  • Procellaria Petrels
  • Diving-Petrels

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native shearwaters and petrels All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis 15,457 observations
  • Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea 7,268 observations
  • Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis 4,589 observations
  • Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica 4,133 observations
  • Pink-footed Shearwater Ardenna creatopus 2,951 observations
  • Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris 2,865 observations
  • Black-vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas 2,158 observations
  • Buller's Shearwater Ardenna bulleri 1,626 observations
  • Flesh-footed Shearwater Ardenna carneipes 1,398 observations
  • Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii 758 observations
  • Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata 300 observations
  • Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis 184 observations
  • Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli 38 observations

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