Great Shearwater
Ardenna gravis(O'Reilly, B, 1818)
English (US) Great Shearwater
The Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: breeds Tristan da Cunha group (mainly) and Kidney Island (Falkland Islands; few); ranges in Atlantic off southern South America and southern Africa, and northward to southern Greenland and northwestern EuropeRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ardenna gravis
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Great Shearwater
- Described by
- (O'Reilly, B, 1818)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Procellaria Gravis
- Described by
- (O'Reilly, B, 1818)
- Type locality
- Cape Farewell and Staten Hook to Newfoundland.
- Original description
- Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817 p.140 pl.12 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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