Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)

Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
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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
Trips
Visits
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2012-11-24
Wollongong Pelagic Trip, Australia -
2014-11-18
Fort Funston, United States of AmericaSeveral shearwaters attending feeding frenzy. Not 100% sure on ID