Procellariiformes


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Noun1.Procellariiformes - petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels
animal order - the order of animals
Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds
procellariiform seabird - large long-winged bird with hooked bill and tubular nostrils that wanders the open seas
family Procellariidae, Procellariidae - petrels; fulmars; shearwaters;
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Procellariiformes: Macronectes giganteus "petrel gigante artico", visto pocas veces en la orilla marina de Villa.
Gaviiformes (loons), podicipediformes (grebes), and procellariiformes (albatrosses, fulmars, petrels, storm petrels, and shearwaters).
1) and the results were similar to several representatives of Passeriformes, Procellariiformes, Cuculiformes, Piciformes and Psittaciformes (Mindell et al., 1998; Eberhard et al., 2001; Abbott et al., 2005).
El analisis de la osteofauna aviar se realizo a partir de 685 fragmentos extraidos desde las nueve capas estratigraficas y estaria principalmente compuesto por los ordenes Suliformes, Procellariiformes y Pelecaniformes (Pena-Villalobos et al.
Albatrosses (Procellariiformes: Diomedeidae) are large birds that mostly occur in the Southern Hemisphere (Sick, 1997).
Other birds (10%) are marine species, including the Procellariiformes, which are encountered mostly in the open ocean, and other species such as the Common Eider, Thayer's Gull, Glaucous Gull, Thick-billed Murre, and Black Guillemot, which are found on Arctic coasts.
Among the registered orders, the Procellariiformes (e.g., petrels and shearwaters) and Charadriiformes (e.g., sandpipers, noddies and terns) are the most noteworthy, with 17 and 12 species, respectively (Fig.
Low [delta].sup.13]C signatures in pelagic seabirds: lipid ingestion as a potential source of [sup.13]C-depleted carbon in the Procellariiformes. Mar.
Otros estudios de anatomia vascular en aves fueron llevados a cabo por Pettit et al.(1981) quien comparo la Red Mirable Oftalmica (RMO) en 6 diferentes especies de aves acuaticas de Hawai: Procellariiformes, Charadriformes y Pelecaniformes; en todas las aves se encontro que la RMO esta formada por la continuacion de la Arteria Oftalmica Externa (AOE) que deriva de la Arteria Carotida Comun (ACC), ademas se determino que los patrones morfologicos de la RMO son semejantes entre estos grupos de aves marinas.