Short-tailed Shearwater
Ardenna tenuirostris(Temminck, CJ, 1836)
English (US) Short-tailed Shearwater
The Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) 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 islets off southern Australia, including Bass Strait and Tasmania; ranges to Antarctic ice edge waters, then to Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea (North Pacific Ocean)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ardenna tenuirostris
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1836)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Procellaria tenuirostris
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1836)
- Type locality
- seas north of Japan and shores of Korea.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.99, vol.5 text to pl.587
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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