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Like other petrels, their walking ability is limited, but they are strong fliers, with a stiff wing action quite unlike the gulls.
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Both giant petrels have strong legs and can move around on land effectively.
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These nesters include species of albatrosses, petrels, skuas, gulls and terns.
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Nasal glands remove excess salt from seawater consumed by the petrel as a concentrated solution excreted through the nostrils.
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The mottled petrel feeds mostly on fish and squid, with some crustaceans taken.
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The diving petrels are a clade, but within a larger clade of true petrels that also contains the gadfly petrels.
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This flight is low over the water and diving petrels will fly through the crests of waves without any interruption of their flight path.
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Petrels also catch opossum shrimps from waters close to the colony.
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You are a stormy petrel., which was adopted as a nickname for the cruiser.
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The exceptions are the huge albatrosses, several of the gadfly petrels and shearwaters and the fulmar-petrels.
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