Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)

Other Names (World)
Scopoli's Shearwater, Cory's Shearwater, Mediterranean Shearwater, Atlantic Shearwater, North Atlantic Shearwater

Family
Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters)

Size
45 - 56 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Scopoli, 1769)

Habitat
Breeds on islands, otherwise marine, pelagic.

Range (Guide)

Albania (B), Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Cote dIvoire, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B), Cuba, Cyprus, Dominica, Egypt, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), France (B) (NB) (P), French Guiana, French Southern Territories, Gibraltar (NB) (P), Greece (B) (P), Guyana, Ireland, Israel, Italy (B) (NB), Jordan (P), Lebanon (NB) (P), Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B), Madagascar (NB), Malta (B) (NB), Martinique, Mauritania, Mexico, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique (NB), Namibia, Palestinian Authority Territories (NB) (P), Portugal (B) (NB), Puerto Rico, Senegal (P), Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Spain (B) (P), St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia (B), Turkey (B), Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom (P), Uruguay (NB), USA (NB), Western Sahara.

Vagrant to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Ghana, Guadeloupe (NB), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (P), Montenegro (NB), Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman (NB), Panama (NB), Poland, Serbia (NB), St Helena, St Pierre and Miquelon (NB), Sweden, Switzerland, Venezuela.

Unknown to Angola, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Monaco, Nigeria, Sao Tome e Principe (NB), Slovenia, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo.

Population
Estimated population is 600,000 - 1,200,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Fish, squid and offal.

Voice
Wails and coughing screams at breeding gounds, otherwise silent.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (44)...)

Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) [XC375449]
by AUDEVARD Aur\u00e9lien from Hy\u00e8res, Var, Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d'Azur, France (song)

Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) [XC840557]
by Giuseppe Speranza from Lampedusa e Linosa (near Linosa), Libero consorzio comunale di Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy (begging call)

Nest
At the end of a burrow.

Eggs (Guide)
1; white.

Subspecies
Calonectris diomedea (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) and Cape Verde Shearwater (Calonectris edwardsii) following Hazevoet (1995), contra Brooke (2004). Calonectris diomedea (Hazevoet 1995) was split by Sangster et al. (1998) into Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) and Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris borealis) but this treatment is not followed by the BirdLife International.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

diomedea (Scopoli, 1769) - Mediterranean islands.
borealis (Cory, 1881) - Azores, Madeira, Canary and Berlenga islands.
edwardsii (Oustalet, 1883) - Breeds Cape Verde Islands.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Scopolis Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) - 10 files

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