Magellanic Diving Petrel
Pelecanoides magellani(Mathews, GM, 1912)
English (US) Magellanic Diving Petrel
The Magellanic Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides magellani) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: breeds islets in Chilean fjords to Cape Horn; ranges coasts and fjords northward to south-central Chile and coastal Santa Cruz (southeastern Argentina)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pelecanoides magellani
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Magellanic Diving Petrel
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Puffinuria garnotii magellani
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
- Type locality
- Straits of Magellan.
- Original description
- The birds of Australia 2 p.239
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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