Procellariidae

The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds. It is made up of 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.

Procellariidae
Cape Petrel Daption capense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Procellariidae Leach, 1820
Genera
Macronectes Fulmarus Thalassoica Daption Pagodroma Halobaena Pachyptila Procellaria Bulweria Calonectris Puffinus Pseudobulweria Lugensa Pterodroma
Diversity
[[List of Procellariidae|14 genera and about 70 species]]