Family
Shearwaters and Petrels
Procellariidae
95 species with a page on Motmot.
Order: Procellariiformes
The family Procellariidae 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 of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses and the storm petrels. The procellariids are the most numerous family of tubenoses, and the most diverse.
Species in this family
- Kerguelen Petrel Aphrodroma brevirostris
- Buller's Shearwater Ardenna bulleri
- Flesh-footed Shearwater Ardenna carneipes
- Pink-footed Shearwater Ardenna creatopus
- Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis
- Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica
- Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris
- Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii
- Jouanin's Petrel Bulweria fallax
- Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea
- Cape Verde Shearwater Calonectris edwardsii
- Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas
- Pintado Petrel Daption capense
- Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
- Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides
- Blue Petrel Halobaena caerulea
- Southern Giant-Petrel Macronectes giganteus
- Northern Giant-Petrel Macronectes halli
- Slender-billed Prion Pachyptila belcheri
- Fulmar Prion Pachyptila crassirostris
- Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata
- MacGillivray's Prion Pachyptila macgillivrayi
- Salvin's Prion Pachyptila salvini
- Fairy Prion Pachyptila turtur
- Broad-billed Prion Pachyptila vittata
- Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea
- Peruvian Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides garnotii
- South Georgia Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides georgicus
- Magellanic Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides magellani
- Common Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix
- White-chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis
- Grey Petrel Procellaria cinerea
- Spectacled Petrel Procellaria conspicillata
- Parkinson's Petrel Procellaria parkinsoni
- Westland Petrel Procellaria westlandica
- Mascarene Petrel Pseudobulweria aterrima
- Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki
- Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata
- Phoenix Petrel Pterodroma alba
- Trindade Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana
- Henderson Petrel Pterodroma atrata
- Chatham Islands Petrel Pterodroma axillaris
- Barau's Petrel Pterodroma baraui
- Collared Petrel Pterodroma brevipes
- Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow
- Jamaican Petrel Pterodroma caribbaea
- White-necked Petrel Pterodroma cervicalis
- Cook's Petrel Pterodroma cookii
- Masatierra Petrel Pterodroma defilippiana
- Juan Fernandez Petrel Pterodroma externa
- Fea's Petrel Pterodroma feae
- Grey-faced Petrel Pterodroma gouldi
- Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata
- Herald Petrel Pterodroma heraldica
- Bonin Petrel Pterodroma hypoleuca
- Atlantic Petrel Pterodroma incerta
- Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata
- White-headed Petrel Pterodroma lessonii
- Gould's Petrel Pterodroma leucoptera
- Stejneger's Petrel Pterodroma longirostris
- Great-winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera
- Zino's Petrel Pterodroma madeira
- Magenta Petrel Pterodroma magentae
- Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis
- Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta
- Black-winged Petrel Pterodroma nigripennis
- Vanuatu Petrel Pterodroma occulta
- Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia
- Pycroft's Petrel Pterodroma pycrofti
- Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis
- Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri
- Murphy's Petrel Pterodroma ultima
- Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis
- Townsend's Shearwater Puffinus auricularis
- Tropical Shearwater Puffinus bailloni
- Bannerman's Shearwater Puffinus bannermani
- Barolo Shearwater Puffinus baroli
- Boyd's Shearwater Puffinus boydi
- Bryan's Shearwater Puffinus bryani
- Subantarctic Shearwater Puffinus elegans
- Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia
- Heinroth's Shearwater Puffinus heinrothi
- Hutton's Shearwater Puffinus huttoni
- Sargasso Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri
- Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus
- Rapa Shearwater Puffinus myrtae
- Christmas Shearwater Puffinus nativitatis
- Newell's Shearwater Puffinus newelli
- Black-vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas
- Persian Shearwater Puffinus persicus
- Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus
- Galapagos Shearwater Puffinus subalaris
- Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan
- Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica
Lookalikes compared
- Antarctic Prion vs Spectacled Petrel
- Balearic Shearwater vs Barolo Shearwater
- Black-capped Petrel vs Hawaiian Petrel
- Broad-billed Prion vs Antarctic Prion
- Christmas Shearwater vs Newell's Shearwater
- Fairy Prion vs Broad-billed Prion
- Fairy Prion vs Fluttering Shearwater
- Fluttering Shearwater vs Common Diving-Petrel
- Great Shearwater vs Buller's Shearwater
- Great Shearwater vs Christmas Shearwater
- Great Shearwater vs Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Great-winged Petrel vs Soft-plumaged Petrel
- Kermadec Petrel vs Murphy's Petrel
- Kermadec Petrel vs Soft-plumaged Petrel
- Little Shearwater vs Common Diving-Petrel
- Magenta Petrel vs Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Manx Shearwater vs Boyd's Shearwater
- Soft-plumaged Petrel vs Parkinson's Petrel
- Soft-plumaged Petrel vs Spectacled Petrel
- Sooty Shearwater vs Barolo Shearwater
- Southern Fulmar vs Westland Petrel
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater vs Black-vented Shearwater
- White-necked Petrel vs Cook's Petrel
- Zino's Petrel vs Mottled Petrel