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 CR    Townsend's Shearwater* Id (Atlas):
    Puffinus auricularis Vagrant

Description (10)
Image of Townsend's Shearwater
 

Other Names (World)
Townsend's Shearwater, Newell's Shearwater (newelli)

Family
Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters)

Size
30 - 38 cm
Wingspan: 80 - 88 cm

First Described (Guide)
Townsend, 1890

Derivation
Puff'-in-us - N.L., puffin: äür'-ic'-u-lar-is - L., aurum, gold; L., cularis, ?

Abundance (Guide)
R - V

Possible rare vagrant to Norfolk Island group.

Habitat
Pelagic. Coastal inshore water, high altitude shrubland. From sea-level - 900 m.

Range (Guide)
Eastern Central Pacific (B) (NB), Guam (NB), Mexico (B), Northern Mariana Islands (NB), Southeast Pacific (NB), United States Minor Outlying Islands (NB).

Revillagigedo Is (off western Mexico).
 
Image of Range of Townsend's Shearwater
Norfolk Island.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 250 - 999 (2010) and decreasing.

Status CR
Predation by introduced mammals and destruction of habitat by same are the main thtreats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Braying notes at colonies.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (6)...)

 
Townsend's Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis) [XC726613]
     by Al\u00e1n Palacios from Isla Socorro -- Volc\u00e1n Everman, Mexico (call)

 
Townsend's Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis) [XC725413]
     by Al\u00e1n Palacios from Isla Socorro -- Volc\u00e1n Everman, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
Puffinus auricularis (Sibley and Moroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Townsend's Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis) and Newell's Shearwater (Puffinus newelli) following Brooke (2004).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus).

No subspecies.

Similar Species
Black-vented Shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas) which is larger, distinctly brownish and has less clear separation of dark and light areas.


References
See References.

The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9


Files:
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