Derivation
Puff'-in-us - N.L., puffin: lherminieri - F.L. L'Herminier (1779 - 1833), pharmacist and botanist, who collected in West Indies when attached to French military forces there
Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Indian Ocean Territory (B), Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Comoros (B), Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Fiji, French Polynesia, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam (NB), Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran [Islamic Republic of], Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Maldives, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia [Federated States of] (B) (NB), Montserrat, Mozambique, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Northern Mariana Islands (NB), Oman (B) (P), Pakistan, Palau (B), Panama, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Réunion (B), Saudi Arabia, Seychelles (B), Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, St Helena (B), St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands (B), United Arab Emirates, USA (B), Vanuatu (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B), Yemen.
Vagrant to Australia, Belize, Bermuda (B), Brazil (B), Canada, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Sri Lanka.
Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) [XC871511]
by William Mackin from Long Cay, Exuma Cays, Bahamas (flight call, nocturnal flight call, song)
Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) [XC871484]
by William Mackin from Long Cay, Exuma Cays, Bahamas (flight call, nocturnal flight call, song)
Breeding Season (Guide)
Does not breed in Australia. Breeds on tropical islands, raised coral atolls and rocky islets of the tropical and subtropical waters of the three major oceans.
lherminieri Lesson, 1839 - Breeds throughout the Caribbean, on the Bahamas and formerly on Bermuda; ranges throughout the Caribbean and up the North American Atlantic coast up to southern Canada, with vagrants having been recorded off north-eastern Canada.
baroli (Bonaparte, 1857) - Azores, Desertas, Salvage and Canary islands. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Mascarene Shearwater (Puffinus baroli).
boydi Mathews, 1912 - Cape Verde Islands. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Cape Verde Little Shearwater (Puffinus boydi).
persicus Hume, 1837 - Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, northern Indian Ocean, Comoros. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Persian Shearwater (Puffinus persicus).
temptator Louette and Herremans, 1985 - Breeds on Mohéli (Comoros); ranges in western Indian Ocean around the northern end of Madagascar. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Persian Shearwater (Puffinus persicus).
bailloni (Bonaparte, 1857) - Breeds on Mascarene Islands (south-western Indian Ocean); ranges throughout the south-western Indian Ocean to the north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Tropical Shearwater (Puffinus bailloni).
dichrous Finsch and Hartlaub, 1867 - Breeds throughout central Polynesia and possibly Melanesia (Pacific) and the north-western Indian Ocean up to the Arabian Sea; ranges throughout the western Indian Ocean around the Equator, and in the central Pacific from the equatorial region to the Tropic of Capricorn. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Tropical Shearwater (Puffinus bailloni).
bannermani Mathews and Iredale, 1915 - Breeds on Ogasawara Islands (north-western Pacific); ranges throughout the north-western Pacific from Japanese waters to the equatorial region. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Bannerman's Shearwater (Puffinus bannermani).
gunax Mathews, 1930 - Breeds on Banks Islands of Vanuatu (south-western Pacific); ranges throughout the south-western Pacific between the equatorial region and the Tropic of Capricorn. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Tropical Shearwater (Puffinus bailloni).
atrodorsalis Shirihai, Sinclair and Colston, 1995 - Comoros, Isreal, South Africa. Some consider this idential to subspecies bailloni, others consider it a seperate species: see Mascarene Shearwater (Puffinus baroli).
subalaris Ridgway, 1897 - Breeds Galapagos Islands. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Galapagos Shearwater (Puffinus subalaris).
loyemilleri Wetmore, 1959 - Islets in south-western Caribbean.
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What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
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BirdLife International Species Factsheet