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Audubon's shearwater, the Glossary

Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) is a common tropical seabird in the petrel family.^[1]

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Birds of Macaronesia
Puffinus
Shearwaters

Aldabra

Aldabra, the world's second-largest coral atoll (the largest is Kiribati), is located southeast of the continent of Africa.

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Allopatric speciation – also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become geographically isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with gene flow.

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American Samoa

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.

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Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea (हिन्दी|Hindī: सिंधु सागर, baḥr al-ʿarab) is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldives, on the southwest by Somalia.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atoll

An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.

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Audubon

The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Azores

The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).

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Banks Islands

The Banks Islands (in Bislama Bankis) are a group of islands in northern Vanuatu.

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Bannerman's shearwater (Puffinus bannermani) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri). Audubon's shearwater and Bannerman's shearwater are puffinus.

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Barolo shearwater

The Barolo shearwater (Puffinus baroli), also known as the North Atlantic little shearwater or Macaronesian shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Azores and Canaries of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. Audubon's shearwater and barolo shearwater are birds of Macaronesia and puffinus.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Bird nest

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.

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Bird ringing

Bird ringing (UK) or bird banding (US) is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.

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Black-vented shearwater

The black-vented shearwater (Puffinus opisthomelas) is a species of seabird. Audubon's shearwater and black-vented shearwater are puffinus.

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Bonin Islands

The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島), is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam.

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Boyd's shearwater

Egg of ''Puffinus boydi''(coll.MHNT) Boyd's shearwater (Puffinus boydi), also known as the Cape Verde little shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Cape Verde archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean some 570 km off the coast of West Africa. Audubon's shearwater and Boyd's shearwater are puffinus.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Calonectris

Calonectris is a genus of seabirds. Audubon's shearwater and Calonectris are shearwaters.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Christmas shearwater

The Christmas shearwater or aoū (Puffinus nativitatis) is a medium-sized shearwater of the tropical Central Pacific. Audubon's shearwater and Christmas shearwater are puffinus and shearwaters.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Comoros

The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Cytochrome b

Cytochrome b within both molecular and cell biology, is a protein found in the membranes of aerobic cells.

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David Snow (ornithologist)

David William Snow (30 September 1924 – 4 February 2009) was an English ornithologist born in Windermere, Westmorland.

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Digital object identifier

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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Down feather

The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers.

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Emu (journal)

Emu, subtitled Austral Ornithology, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union).

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is a state in southeastern Brazil.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Félix Louis L'Herminier

Félix Louis L'Herminier (18 May 1779 – 25 October 1833) was a French pharmacist and naturalist born in Paris.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fledge

Fledging is the stage in a flying animal's life between hatching or birth and becoming capable of flight.

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Flight feather

Flight feathers (Pennae volatus) are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired pennaceous feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges, singular remex, while those on the tail are called rectrices, singular rectrix.

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Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands (Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the Equator west of the mainland of South America.

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Galápagos shearwater

The Galápagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris) is a small shearwater. Audubon's shearwater and Galápagos shearwater are puffinus and shearwaters.

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Gene flow

In population genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another.

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Great shearwater

The great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Handbook of the Birds of the World

The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.

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Heinroth's shearwater

Heinroth's shearwater (Puffinus heinrothi) is a poorly known seabird in the family Procellariidae. Audubon's shearwater and Heinroth's shearwater are puffinus.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Iris (anatomy)

The iris (irides or irises) is a thin, annular structure in the eye in most mammals and birds, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil, and thus the amount of light reaching the retina.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Khuriya Muriya Islands

The Khuriya Muriya Islands (also Kuria Muria, Kooria Mooria, Curia Muria) (جزر خوريا موريا; transliterated: Juzur Khurīyā Murīyā or Khūryān Mūryān) are a group of five islands in the Arabian Sea, off the southeastern coast of Oman.

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Lapsus

In philology, a lapsus (Latin for "lapse, slip, error") is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking.

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Little shearwater

The little shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) is a small shearwater in the petrel family Procellariidae. Audubon's shearwater and little shearwater are puffinus.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Maldives

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.

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Manx shearwater

The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. Audubon's shearwater and Manx shearwater are puffinus.

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Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands (Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audubon's_shearwater

Also known as Dusky-backed Shearwater, Mascarene Shearwater, Ochaio, Puffinus assimilis lherminieri, Puffinus atrodorsalis, Puffinus lherminieri.

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Audubon's shearwater, the Glossary

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See also

Birds of Macaronesia

Puffinus

Shearwaters

References