Editing Procellariiformes (section)

===Role in culture===
[[File:The Albatross about my Neck was Hung by William Strang.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''The Albatross about my Neck was Hung'': 1896 etching by [[William Strang]] illustrating [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]]'s 1798 poem ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'']]
The most important family culturally is the albatrosses, which have been described by one author as "the most legendary of birds".<ref name ="delhoyo">Carboneras, C. (1992) "Family Diomedeidae (Albatross)" in ''Handbook of Birds of the World'' Vol 1. Barcelona:Lynx Edicions, {{ISBN|84-87334-10-5}}</ref> Albatrosses have featured in poetry in the form of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s famous 1798 poem ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'', which in turn gave rise to the usage of albatross as [[Albatross (metaphor)|metaphor for a burden]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lasky |first1=E |year=1992 |title=A modern day albatross: The Valdez and some of life's other spills |journal=The English Journal |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=44–46 |doi=10.2307/820195 |jstor=820195 }}</ref> More generally, albatrosses were believed to be good omens, and to kill one would bring bad luck.<ref name="Double" /> There are few instances of [[petrel]]s in culture, although there are sailors' legends regarding the storm petrels, which are considered to warn of oncoming storms. In general, petrels were considered to be "soul birds", representing the souls of drowned sailors, and it was considered unlucky to touch them.<ref name = "HBW storm">Carboneras, C. (1992) "Family Hydrobatidae (Storm-petrels)" pp. 258–265 in ''Handbook of Birds of the World'' Vol 1. Barcelona:Lynx Edicions, {{ISBN|84-87334-10-5}}</ref>

In the Russian language, many petrel species from the  [[Hydrobatidae]] and [[Procellariidae]] families of the order Procellariiformes are known as ''[[burevestnik (disambiguation)|burevestnik]]'', which literally means 'the announcer of the storm'. When in 1901, the Russian writer [[Maxim Gorky]] turned to the imagery of subantarctic avifauna to describe Russian society's attitudes to the [[Russian Revolution|coming revolution]], he used a ''storm-announcing'' petrel as the lead character of a poem  that soon became popular in the revolutionary circles as "the battle anthem of the revolution".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090224220231/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833822,00.html "A Legend Exhumed"], review of "STORMY PETREL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MAXIM GORKY" by Dan Levin. 329 pages. Appleton-Century. Review published in the [[Time Magazine]], Friday, Jun. 25, 1965</ref>  Although the species called "[[stormy petrel]]" in English is not one of those to which the ''burevestnik'' name is applied in Russian (it, in fact, is known in Russian as an entirely un-romantic ''[[:ru:Качурки|kachurka]]''), the English translators uniformly used the "stormy petrel" image in their translations of the poem, usually known in English as ''[[The Song of the Stormy Petrel]]''.<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1901/misc/x01.htm "The Song of the Stormy Petrel", Translation by Sally Ryan]</ref>

Various tubenose birds are relevant to the mythologies and oral traditions of [[Polynesia]]. The [[Māori people|Māori]] used the wing bones of the albatross to carve [[flute]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mclean|first=Mervyn|title=A Chronological and Geographical Sequence of Maori Flute Scales|journal=Man|year=1982|volume=17|issue=1|pages=123–157 |jstor=2802105|doi=10.2307/2802105}}</ref> In [[Hawaiian mythology]], Laysan albatrosses are considered ''[[aumakua]]'', being a sacred manifestation of the ancestors, and quite possibly also the sacred bird of [[Kāne]].<ref>Hor Osterlund, Holy Mōlī: Albatross and Other Ancestors, Oregon State University Press</ref> The storm petrel features prominently in the "Origin of Birds" myth.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bes02Reli-t1-body-d4-d3-d10.html | title=Origin of Birds &#124; NZETC }}</ref>