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Name Every Tubenose

Tubenosed seabirds are in the order Procellariiformes, which includes the albatrosses, storm-petrels, diving-petrels, giant-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, fulmars, and prions. They are characterized by long, pointed wings and nostrils enclosed in a keratinous tube, giving them their name. Tubenoses spend almost all their time at sea except when coming to gather in massive colonies to breed. There are 147 species split into 4 families, how many can you name?
Taxonomy as of 2025
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Family
Genus
Species
Diomedeidae
Diomedea
Northern Royal Albatross
 
 
Southern Royal Albatross
Snowy Albatross
Tristan Albatross
Antipodean Albatross
Amsterdam Albatross
Phoebastria
Waved Albatross
 
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Short-tailed Albatross
Phoebetria
Sooty Albatross
 
Light-mantled Albatross
Thalassarche
Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
 
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
Gray-headed Albatross
Buller's Albatross
White-capped Albatross
Salvin's Albatross
Chatham Albatross
Black-browed Albatross
Oceanitidae
Oceanites
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
 
 
Pincoya Storm-Petrel
Elliot's Storm-Petrel
Garrodia
Gray-backed Storm-Petrel
Pelagodroma
White-faced Storm-Petrel
Fregetta
White-bellied Storm-Petrel
 
New Zealand Storm-Petrel
New Caledonian Storm-Petrel
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel
Nesofregetta
Polynesian Storm-Petrel
Hydrobatidae
Hydrobates
European Storm-Petrel
 
 
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
Ringed Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Townsend's Storm-Petrel
Ainley's Storm-Petrel
Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel
Ashy Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Monteiro's Storm-Petrel
Cape Verde Storm-Petrel
Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
Black Storm-Petrel
Guadalupe Storm-Petrel
Markham's Storm-Petrel
Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel
Tristram's Storm-Petrel
Least Storm-Petrel
Procellariidae
Macronectes
Southern Giant-Petrel
 
 
Northern Giant-Petrel
Fulmarus
Northern Fulmar
 
Southern Fulmar
Thalassoica
Antarctic Fulmar
Daption
Pintado Petrel
Pagodroma
Snow Petrel
Aphrodroma
Kerguelen Petrel
Pterdroma
Great-winged Petrel
 
Gray-faced Petrel
Kermadec Petrel
Magenta Petrel
Trindade Petrel
Herald Petrel
Murphy's Petrel
Providence Petrel
Henderson Petrel
Zino's Petrel
Fea's Petrel
Soft-plumaged Petrel
Barau's Petrel
White-headed Petrel
Mottled Petrel
Bermuda Petrel
Black-capped Petrel
Family
Genus
Species
 
 
Jamaican Petrel
Juan Fernandez Petrel
Atlantic Petrel
Galapagos Petrel
Hawaiian Petrel
White-necked Petrel
Bonin Petrel
Black-winged Petrel
Chatham Islands Petrel
Cook's Petrel
Masatierra Petrel
Gould's Petrel
Collared Petrel
Stejneger's Petrel
Pycroft's Petrel
Phoenix Petrel
Vanuatu Petrel
Halobaena
Blue Petrel
Pachyptila
Fairy Prion
 
Broad-billed Prion
Salvin's Prion
MacGillivray's Prion
Antarctic Prion
Slender-billed Prion
Fulmar Prion
Bulweria
Bulwer's Petrel
 
Jouanin's Petrel
Pseudobulweria
Fiji Petrel
 
Mascarene Petrel
Tahiti Petrel
Beck's Petrel
Procellaria
Gray Petrel
 
White-chinned Petrel
Spectacled Petrel
Parkinson's Petrel
Westland Petrel
Calonectris
Streaked Shearwater
 
Cory's Shearwater
Scopoli's Shearwater
Cape Verde Shearwater
Ardenna
Pink-footed Shearwater
 
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Buller's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Puffinus
Christmas Shearwater
 
Galapagos Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Yelkouan Shearwater
Balearic Shearwater
Hutton's Shearwater
Bannerman's Shearwater
Townsend's Shearwater
Newell's Shearwater
Rapa Shearwater
Bryan's Shearwater
Black-vented Shearwater
Fluttering Shearwater
Little Shearwater
Subantarctic Shearwater
Barolo Shearwater
Boyd's Shearwater
Sargasso Shearwater
Tropical Shearwater
Persian Shearwater
Heinroth's Shearwater
Pelecanoides
Peruvian Diving-Petrel
 
Common Diving-Petrel
South Georgia Diving-Petrel
Magellanic Diving-Petrel
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