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Newell's Shearwater
Puffinus newelliHenshaw, 1900
Native
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Puffinus
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Newell's shearwater or Hawaiian shearwater (ʻaʻo), is a seabird in the family Procellariidae. It belongs to a confusing group of shearwaters which are difficult to identify and whose classification is controversial. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Manx shearwater and is now often placed in Townsend's shearwater. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Lehua (north of Nihau), montane Kauai, Molokai and Hawaii (main Hawaiian Is.)
- Non-breeding range
- To waters south of Japan and Mariana Is. (north-west Micronesia) and to south-west Pacific near New Caledonia, Solomon Is. and Vanuatu
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
3 photos
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