- species, like the Manx
shearwater are
cruciform in flight, with
their long
wings held
directly out from
their bodies. Many
shearwaters are long-distance migrants...
- of
nestling shearwaters. The
Atlantic puffin acquired the name much later,
possibly because of its
similar nesting habits. The
shearwaters form part of...
-
species of
shearwaters that have been
moved into a
separate genus Ardenna based on a
phylogenetic analysis of
mitochondrial DNA.
Sooty shearwaters are 40–51 cm...
- a
superspecies of the
large shearwaters that were for a long time
included in the
genus Puffinus. Wedge-tailed
shearwaters feed
pelagically on fish, squid...
- Short-tailed
Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris). Emu 111:229-234 Ogi H (1990)
Ingestion of
plastic particles by
Sooty and Short-tailed
Shearwaters in the North...
- the
shearwaters. The two
species share a
similar morphology and colouration, but the
bulbous head and
rather thin long bill –
typical for
shearwaters –...
-
yelkouan shearwater appears to
belong to a
group of
Mediterranean and
adjacent Atlantic shearwaters which includes the
Balearic shearwater and one to...
-
meaning "good" or "noble" with the
genus name
Nectris that was used for
shearwaters by the
German naturalist Heinrich Kuhl in 1820. The name
Nectris comes...
- Manx
shearwater, is also distinctive. The only
other large shearwaters in its
range are the Cory's
Shearwater and the all-dark
Sooty Shearwater. wing...
- D, 2008.
Plastic ingestion by Flesh-footed
Shearwaters,
Puffinus carneipes, and Wedge-tailed
Shearwaters,
Puffinus pacificus.
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