Procellariiformes

Procellariiformes Temporal range: Eocene–Present PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Cretaceous record
Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Aves
Clade:	Austrodyptornithes
Order:	Procellariiformes Fürbringer, 1888[1]
Faimilies
†Diomedeoididae Procellariidae Diomedeidae Hydrobatidae Oceanitidae
Diversity
4 Extant Faimilies, 23 Genera, 125 Speshies

Procellariiformes is an order o seabirds that comprises fower faimilies: the albatrosses, petrels an shearwaters, storm petrels, an divin petrels. Umwhile cried Tubinares an still cried tubenoses in Inglis, thay are eften referred tae collectively as the petrels, a term that haes been applied tae aw Procellariiformes,^[2] or mair commonly aw the faimilies except the albatrosses.^[3] Thay are almaist exclusively pelagic (feedin in the open ocean), an hae a cosmopolitan distribution athort the warld's oceans, wi the heichest diversity bein aroond New Zealand.

1. ↑ Brands, Sheila (14 August 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification – Parker (1982)". Project: The Taxonomicon. Archived frae the original on 14 Juin 2010. Retrieved 12 Februar 2009. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
2. ↑ Warham, J. (1996). The Behaviour, Population, Biology and Physiology of the Petrels. London: Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-735415-8
3. ↑ Brooke, 2004.