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Little Shearwater
Puffinus assimilisGould, 1838
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Puffinus
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The little shearwater is a small shearwater in the petrel family Procellariidae. Despite the generic name, it is unrelated to the puffins, which are auks, the only similarity being that they are both burrow-nesting seabirds.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- IO, PO : south-central Indian Ocean, islets off south-west and south Australia and outlying islands of New Zealand
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
3 photos
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