Birds of the Pampas Plain

                  for Jorge Martín Spinuzza

 

                    Procellariformes


PROCELLARIDAE                            FAMILY DID NOT PAMPEANA

     Many families distributed in seas around the world, 24 of them can be seen in Argentina. They are seabirds, pelagic. Very flying, plan. A land only going to nest. The narinas ending in a double tube, unified on the beak . Fingers webbed.

They feed on crustaceans, squid, jellyfish and waste. Place a single egg white.


         SOUTHERN GIAN-PETREL: Macronectes giganteus


       
It is easily seen in the atlantic coast argentina.


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Images taken in Puerto Deseado, province of Santa Cruz.