BirdUp · Species
Short-tailed Shearwater
Ardenna tenuirostris(Temminck, 1836)
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Ardenna
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater, also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird both in early Australia and in New Zealand, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested. It is a migratory species that breeds mainly on small islands in Bass Strait and Tasmania and migrates to the Northern Hemisphere for the boreal summer.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Islets off south and south-east Australia, Bass Strait and Tasmania (south-east Australia)
- Non-breeding range
- To Antarctic ice edge waters then to Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea (North Pacific Ocean)
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
2 photos
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