Audubon's shearwater
dusky-backed shearwater
puffinus lherminieri latin

Until recently, that species was considered conspecific with Audubon's Shearwater.

It consists of a shield with the local bird Audubon's Shearwater and the islands itself.

Audubon's Shearwater itself has around 10 subspecies.

Audubon's Shearwater.

Audubon's Shearwater (several species suspected)

He also analyzed the differences between the Réunion and Seychelles populations of Audubon's Shearwater.

"The breeding of the Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri in the Galapagos."

Audubon's Shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri, is a common tropical seabird from the family Procellariidae.

Audubon's Shearwater belongs to the Puffinus sensu stricto group of mid-sized and small shearwaters, which is related to the genus Calonectris.

Boyd's Shearwater is sometimes considered a subspecies of either the Little Shearwater, Audubon's Shearwater or Macaronesian Shearwater.

Aride Island has more species of seabird and greater numbers than the other 40 granite islands combined including the world's largest colony of Audubon's Shearwater and Lesser Noddy.

Little Tobago and St. Giles Island are important seabird nesting colonies, with Red-billed Tropicbird, Magnificent Frigatebird and Audubon's Shearwater amongst others.

Probably a close relative of the Little Shearwater or Audubon's Shearwater (with which it is sometimes considered conspecific), it is distinguished by a long and slender bill and a brown-washed underside.

There are a number of seabirds that nest in the park including Audubon's Shearwater, White-tailed Tropicbird, brown noddy and six species of terns bridled, least, roseate, royal, sandwich and sooty.

It is an important breeding site for seabirds such as Red-billed Tropicbird, Audubon's Shearwater, Brown Booby, Brown Noddy, Sooty and Bridled Terns.

Noteworthy marine species include: Audubon's Shearwater, Magnificent Frigatebird, Brown Booby and Royal Tern; non-marine: Green Heron and Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola tricolor).

If not split into several species, Audubon's Shearwater ranges across the Indian Ocean north to the Arabian Sea, throughout the northwest and central Pacific, in the Caribbean, and parts of the eastern Atlantic.

Within a thousand years, the Tikopian populations of five bird species (Abbott's Booby, Audubon's Shearwater, Banded Rail, Common Megapode, and Sooty Tern) were extirpated, to be followed later by the Red-footed Booby.

Efe, Márcio Amorim & Musso, Cesar Meyer (2001): Primeiro registro de Puffinus lherminieri Lesson, 1839 no Brasil [First record of Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) for Brazil].

Tropical shearwaters, such as the Wedge-tailed Shearwater and the Audubon's Shearwater, also dive in order to hunt, making the shearwaters the only tropical seabirds capable of exploiting that ecological niche (all other tropical seabirds feed close to the surface).

Until recently it was considered to be a subspecies of Audubon's Shearwater, but it is actually one of two members of a very ancient lineage of the small Puffinus species, the other being, as indicated by mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data, the Christmas Shearwater (Austin et al., 2004).

Sometimes called Dusky-backed Shearwater, the scientific name of this species commemorates the French naturalist Félix Louis L'Herminier.

"The breeding of the Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri in the Galapagos."

Audubon's Shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri, is a common tropical seabird from the family Procellariidae.

Efe, Márcio Amorim & Musso, Cesar Meyer (2001): Primeiro registro de Puffinus lherminieri Lesson, 1839 no Brasil [First record of Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) for Brazil].