Pelecanoides urinatrix; Print; The common diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix); also known as the smaller diving-petrel or simply the diving-petrel; is a diving petrel; one of five very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Africa and islands of the southern Indian Ocean; islands and islets off New Zealand and south-eastern Australian islands.; 1700-1880