PROCELLARIIFORMES

Japan 1975Japan 1992Fiji 1985
Short-tailed Albatross
Diomedea albatrus
(Diomedeidae)
Streaked Shearwater
Calonectris leucomelas
(Procellariidae)
Collared Petrel
Pterodroma brevipes
(Procellariidae)


Waved Albatross
Phoebastria irrorata
(Diomedeidae)
(PROCELLARIIFORMES)
Short-tailed Albatross
Diomedea albatrus
(Diomedeidae)
(PROCELLARIIFORMES)
Laysan Albatross
Diomedea immutabilis
(Diomedeidae)
(PROCELLARIIFORMES)


Shearwater lives on the ocean and comes to the land only in the breeding season. There is a tubular nostril along the upper part of the bill and the foot is short and is weak, but the power the wing has a long it, and to fly is strong. Long-distance depending on a kind with a migratory bird. Generally, in the point of a wing having a long, it is named water Shearwater in what it can incline to right and left, and fly in the body at just at with having set up a wing low on the surface of the water because it seem to calm down. It is good to swim on the sea, and a mollusk eat an animal like fish, Crustacea, floating on the surface of the sea.

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