BirdUp · Species
Buller's Shearwater
Ardenna bulleri(Salvin, 1888)
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Ardenna
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Buller's shearwater is a Pacific species of seabird in the family Procellariidae; it is also known as the grey-backed shearwater or New Zealand shearwater. A member of the black-billed wedge-tailed Thyellodroma group, among the larger shearwaters of the genus Ardenna, it forms a superspecies with the wedge-tailed shearwater.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Poor Knights Is. (off north-east North I., New Zealand)
- Non-breeding range
- To subarctic north Pacific, also east Australia and west South American waters to central Chile
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
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- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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