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• Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English, procellariiforms are often referred to collectively as the petrels, a term that has been applied to all members of the order, or more commonly all the families except the albatrosses.
• Wildlife in the Mahone Bay area includes great blue herons, black guillemots, osprey, Leach's storm petrels, and razorbills.
• Many seabirds can be seen including white-bellied sea eagles and ospreys as well as various albatrosses and petrels.
• They form one of the four groups within the Procellariidae along with the gadfly petrels, shearwaters and fulmarine petrels.
• A 4,655 ha site on the island has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports extensive breeding colonies of southern fulmars and snow petrels on ice free cliffs along the western and northern coasts.
• Mollymawks are albatrosses in the family Diomedeidae and order Procellariiformes, which also includes shearwaters, fulmars, storm petrels, and diving petrels.
• Combined with their body shape, this can make some species awkward on land, but they are stronger walkers than other marine and water birds such as grebes or petrels.
• Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the genus Hydrobates in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes.
• Among the Procellariiformes the diving petrels are the family most adapted to life in the sea rather than flying over it, and are generally found closer inshore than other families in the order.
• The gadfly petrels or Pterodroma are a genus of about 35 species of petrels, part of the seabird 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.
• The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), fulmar, Though similar in appearance to gulls, fulmars are in fact members of the family Procellariidae, which includes petrels and shearwaters.
• The passage hosts whales, dolphins, and seabirds including giant petrels, other petrels, albatrosses, and penguins.
• Sangster estimated that the two Macaronesian species diverged at the end of the Early Pleistocene, 850,000 years ago, An analysis of feather lice from Fea's petrels Pterodroma feae deserti from Bugio Island and Zino's petrels from the Madeiran mainland showed that there were marked differences between the two seabirds in terms of the parasites they carried, suggesting that they have long been isolated, since lice can normally only be transferred through physical contact in the nest.
• Like other gadfly petrels, the black-capped petrel nests in burrows in remote highland areas of islands.
• Other birds found on the island include the brown pelican, Western gull, storm petrels, Scripps's murrelet, Guadalupe murrelet, and cormorants.
• The off-shore island properties include the Alice Eno Field Research Station on Great Duck Island where students conduct studies on Leach's storm petrels, guillemots, gulls, sparrows and other fields of natural history.
• Predators of the king penguin include giant petrels, skuas, the snowy sheathbill, the leopard seal, and the orca.
• Birds for which the site is of conservation significance include Falkland steamer ducks, ruddy-headed geese, gentoo penguins (650 breeding pairs), Magellanic penguins, southern giant petrels (40 pairs), white-bridled finches, blackish cinclodes and Cobb's wrens.
• Birds for which the site is of conservation significance include blackish cinclodes, Cobb's wrens, dolphin gulls (500 breeding pairs), Falkland steamer ducks (600 pairs), Magellanic penguins (10,000 pairs), ruddy-headed geese, sooty shearwaters, southern giant petrels (1,000 pairs), striated caracaras, and white-bridled finches.

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