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Brian Patteson's Images of Pelagic Seabirds - Gallery with 182 photos of pelagic birds, mammals, and fish, mostly taken off the North Carolina coast. Includes many images of tubenoses (Procellariiformes).
Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) - Dorsal view of this bird in flight off the North Carolina coast.
Blue Petrel (Halobaena caerula) - Describes the seasonal movements and feeding habits of this species. Includes a photo.
Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris) - Offers a photo and describes this bird's physical traits and habitat.
Bermuda Petrel (Pterodroma cahow) - Taxonomy, history of decline, current world population, current nesting areas, and conservation efforts. Includes an image.
Titi, The Muttonbird or Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) - Physical appearance, distribution, and nesting habits of this bird.
White-faced Storm-Petrel (Pelagodroma marina) - Photos, distribution, behavior, and physical traits of this bird.
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) - Images plus facts about this bird's nesting and feeding habits.
Shy Albatross (Diomedea cauta) - Series of nine photos of this bird.
Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) - Physical description, habitat, breeding, diet, and distribution.

Procellariiformes - Procellariiformes (from the Latin procella, a storm) is an order of birds formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English.
Albatross - Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific.
Stomach oil - Stomach oil is the light oil composed of neutral dietary lipids found in the fore-gut or proventriculus of birds in the order Procellariiformes. All albatrosses, procellarids (gadfly petrels and shearwaters) and storm-petrels use the oil.
European Storm-petrel - The European Storm-petrel or Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a small bird of the storm-petrel family, Hydrobatidae, part of the seabird order Procellariiformes. It is the only member of the genus Hydrobates.
Procellariidae - The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.