Tropical shearwater

Tropical shearwater
in Réunion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Procellariiformes
Family:Procellariidae
Genus:Puffinus
Species: P. bailloni
Binomial name
Puffinus bailloni
(Bonaparte, 1857)
Subspecies

5, see text

The tropical shearwater (Puffinus bailloni) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri).[2]

Subspecies

There are five listed subspecies of the tropical shearwater:[2]

Range

The tropical shearwater is found in the tropical parts of the western Indian Ocean from east Africa to southern India and in similar regions of the Pacific from just to the southeast of Japan to French Polynesia.[3]

Population

The total population has not been definitively quantified. Subspecies P. b. dichrous is estimated to number 1,000–10,000 pairs on the Line Islands and 10,000–100,000 pairs on the Phoenix Islands, with the nominate subspecies thought to number 3,000–5,000 pairs on Réunion and fewer than 100 individuals on Europa (reviewed by Brooke 2004), though it is thought there are many more breeding colonies on other islands in the Pacific. The population seems to be stable.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Birdlife International (2014). "Puffinus bailloni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Loons, penguins, petrels". International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  3. ↑ "Puffinus bailloni range map". International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Puffinus bailloni". International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
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