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  Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris)





Short-tailed Shearwater | Puffinus tenuirostris photo
Short-tailed Shearwater, Morro Bay, California

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Short-tailed Shearwater | Puffinus tenuirostris photo
Short-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris) Fledgling

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BIRD FACTS

Description
Body and bill dark brown, feet light brown. Wings narrow, pointed at tip. Underwing coloration variable from brown to grey-brown. Short rounded tail. Body up to 43 cm long.

Short-tailed Shearwaters migrate to areas in the northern Pacific Ocean during winter. They return to Australia to breed from November to early May. They nest in burrows underground, laying one egg. They can occur in very large flocks.

Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria

Habitat
Bays and coastlines of Victoria.

Food
Carnivore

Range
Pacific Ocean. Coastal eastern and southern mainland Australia and Tasmania.

distribution map showing range of Puffinus tenuirostris in Australia

Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.


Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.




Classification
Class:Aves
Order:Procellariiformes
Family:Procellariidae
Genus:Puffinus
Species:tenuirostris
Common Name:Short-tailed Shearwater

Relatives in same Genus
  Bullers Shearwater (P. bulleri)
  Flesh-footed Shearwater (P. carneipes)
  Pink-footed Shearwater (P. creatopus)
  Fluttering Shearwater (P. gavia)
  Great Shearwater (P. gravis)
  Sooty Shearwater (P. griseus)
  Huttons Shearwater (P. huttoni)
  Audubons Shearwater (P. lherminieri)
  Wedge-tailed Shearwater (P. pacificus)
  Manx Shearwater (P. puffinus)