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Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus Pampero Atlántico
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Photo: D. Roberson
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| Dark above and light below, with long, narrow wings. Length:
30-38 cm.; weight: 350-575 g. It is larger and darker than the common
Audubons Shearwater that breeds in the Caribbean. Breeds on islands off
eastern Canada and Europe. 90% of the world's Manx Shearwaters breed in
the British isles. Like many seabirds, this species is long-lived. One
bird banded in 1957 was still breeding in 2002 at age 50. Rare winter
visitor to waters offshore Puerto Rico.
TAXONOMY: PROCELLARIIFORMES; PROCELLARIIDAE |
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Photo: D. Paulson
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References Bent, A.C. 1922. Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies. Smithsonian Instit. U.S. National Museum Bull. 121. (Reprinted by Dover Press, NY, 1964). del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal, eds. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 1. Ostrich to ducks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Harrison, P. 1983. Seabirds: an identification guide. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. Harrison, P. 1987. A field guide to seabirds of the world. Stephen Greene Press, Lexington, MA. Lee, D. S. 1999. A closer look: Manx Shearwater. Birding 31(6):526-531. Lee, D. S., and J. C. Haney. 1997. Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus). No. 257 in The birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, PA, and Am. Ornithol. Union, Washington, D.C. Raffaele, H.A. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Princeton. Raffaele, H.A. 1989. Una guía a las aves de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes. Publishing Resources, Inc., Santurce, PR. Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton. Next related species in taxonomic order Previous related species in taxonomic order |