Scopoli's Shearwater
Calonectris diomedea(Scopoli, GA, 1769)
English (US) Scopoli's Shearwater
The Scopoli's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) 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 Mediterranean islands and southwestern France; ranges mainly in upwelling systems of tropical eastern AtlanticRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calonectris diomedea
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Scopoli's Shearwater
- Described by
- (Scopoli, GA, 1769)
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Procellaria diomedea
- Described by
- (Scopoli, GA, 1769)
- Type locality
- no locality; Tremiti Islands, Adriatic Sea, designated by Committee on Nomenclature, Brit. Ornith. Union, 1946, Ibis, 88, p. 534.
- Original description
- Annus I Historico-naturalis. Descriptiones avium musei proprii earumque rariorum, quas vidit in vivario Augustiss. Imperatorus, et museo excell. Comitis Francisci Annib. Turriani p.74
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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