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Oriole, Audubon bird pictures
Oriole, Baltimore bird pictures
Oriole, Hooded bird pictures
Oriole, Orchard bird pictures
Oriole, Scott bird pictures
Oven-bird bird pictures
Paraque, Merrill bird pictures
Paroquet, Carolina bird pictures
Parrot, Sea bird pictures
Pelican, California Brown bird pictures
Pelican, White bird pictures
Petrel, Ashy bird pictures
Petrel, Black bird pictures<
Petrel, Fisher bird picture
Petrel, Fork-tailed bird pictures
Petrel, Guadalupe bird pictures
Petrel, Kaeding bird pictures
Petrel, Leach bird pictures
Petrel, Least bird pictures
Pewee, Wood bird pictures
Phalarope, Nothern bird pictures
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Phalorpe, Red bird pictures
Phoebe bird pictures
Pintail bird pictures
Pipit, American bird pictures
Pipit, Sprague bird pictures
Poor-Will bird pictures
Poor-Will, Whip bird pictures
Puffin, Horned bird pictures
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Petrel, Black bird pictures
BLACK PETREL107. Oceanodroma melania. 7 1/2 inches.
These birds are sooty black all over, lacking the white rump of the two or three preceding. All of the Petrels have a very offensive musky odor, which is always noticeable about an island inhabited by them.
The skins and eggs of the birds always retain this odor.
Nest. - Made in burrows similar to the others, but sometimes containing a small amount of nesting material; grass and roots.
Range. - Southern California southward to Mexico.