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Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)

Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)

About Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Tubenoses
  • Family: Shearwaters and Petrels

The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater, also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in New Zealand, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested. It is a migratory species that breeds mainly on small islands in Bass Strait and Tasmania and migrates to the Northern Hemisphere for the boreal summer.

Source: Wikipedia

Visits

  • 2012-11-24

    Wollongong Pelagic Trip, Australia
    Image from 2012-11-24
    Image from 2012-11-24
  • 2014-11-18

    Fort Funston, United States of America
    Several shearwaters attending feeding frenzy. Not 100% sure on ID