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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Genus Puffinus       IUCN and region codes at bottom of page. Species Family Scientific name Breeding Regions Breeding Subregions Nonbreeding Subregions - PROCELLARIIFORMES   Balearic Shearwater (CR)  i U    Procellariidae    Puffinus mauretanicus  AO islets of Balearic Is. (w Mediterranean Sea) to Atlantic coasts of sw Europe and nw Africa  Bannerman's Shearwater (EN)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus bannermani  PO Higashijima (Ogasawara=Bonin Is.) and Minami-iwo-jima (Volcano=Iwo Is.; far se Japan) to Izu Is. (s of c Japan)  Barolo Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus baroli  AO islets off Graciosa and Santa Maria (c, s Azores); Porto Santo and Desertas groups (ne, se Madeira); Selvagem Grande (Salvage Is., n of Canary Is.); Tenerife and satellites, and satellites off Lanzarote (wc, e Canary Is.) rare to coasts of sw Europe and nw Africa, and near shelf-slope break off New England (nw North Atlantic)  Black-vented Shearwater (NT)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus opisthomelas  PO I. San Martin (w of nw Baja), Guadalupe, San Benito, Cedros, and Is. Natividad (w of c Baja California), and I. Rasa (n Gulf of California; nw Mexico) to c California inshore waters, Gulf of California and to inshore waters of c Mexico  Boyd's Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus boydi  AO Cape Verde Is. (except Maio; extinct Sal) rare to Canary Is., nw African coastal waters and Amazon Reef (ne South America)  Bryan's Shearwater (CR)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus bryani  PO Higashi-jima (n Bonin=Ogasawara Is., far se Japan) to n of Bonin Is. (=Ogasawara Is.; waters s of Kyushu)  Christmas Shearwater i U    Procellariidae    Puffinus nativitatis  PO islands of Northwestern Hawaiian Is., Lehua and Ka'ula (n, sw of Ni'hau, w of Kauai), Moku Manu (O'ahu; Hawaiian Is.), Line, Austral, Marquesas, Gambier, Pitcairn, Easter (=Eastern) groups and is. Salas y Gomez (e Polynesia) to Micronesia (w tropical Pacific) and w coasts of c Mexico to Peru (e tropical Pacific)  Fluttering Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus gavia  PO islets of ne North I. and Marlborough Sounds (ne South I.; New Zealand) to s, e Australian waters  Galapagos Shearwater i U    Procellariidae    Puffinus subalaris  PO islets off Wolf (=Wenman), Santa Cruz (=Indefatigable), Campeon (=Champion, ne of Floreana), Islote Pitt (ne of San Cristobal=Chatham) and Espanola (=Hood; Galápagos) to waters off wc Mexico and Central America (se North Pacific Ocean)  Heinroth's Shearwater (VU)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus heinrothi  PO presumably montane Bougainville, Kolombangara and Rendova (n, wc Solomon Is.) to Bismarck Arch., Flores and Molucca seas  Hutton's Shearwater (EN)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus huttoni  PO montane ne South I. (New Zealand) to nw Australian waters  Little Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus assimilis  IO, PO sc Indian Ocean, islets off sw, s Australia and outlying islands of New Zealand  Manx Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus puffinus  AO islands of subarctic, temperate and subtropical North Atlantic Ocean to South Atlantic Ocean waters of Brazil and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego and sw Africa, mostly over continental shelves  Newell's Shearwater (CR)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus newelli  PO Lehua (n of Nihau), montane Kauai, Molokai and Hawaii (main Hawaiian Is.) to waters s of Japan and Mariana Is. (nw Micronesia) and to sw Pacific near New Caledonia, Solomon Is. and Vanuatu  Persian Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus persicus  IO breeds Khuriya Muriya Is. (s of Oman), Socotra and Moheli (=Mwali, Comoro Is.) Arabian Sea to Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, w coast of India and Comoro Is. (sw Indian Ocean)  Rapa Shearwater (CR)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus myrtae  PO Tauturou, Rapa Iti and Karapoo Iti (islets off Rapa, e Tubuai=Austral Is., se Polynesia)  Sargasso Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus lherminieri  AO Elbow Cay (e of c Abaco, n Bahamas), Long Cay (Exumas, ec Bahamas), off n Cuba, e of Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles (Caribbean Sea); Crab Cay (Providencia Is., e of Nicaragua); Tiger Cay (Bocos del Toro Arch., Caribbean nw Panama); is. Los Roques, O to Gulf Stream n to New England (w North Atlantic) and Gulf of Mexico  Subantarctic Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus elegans  AO, PO, IO Tristan da Cunha and Gough (sc Atlantic), Star Keys (Chatham Is., e of South I.) and Antipodes Is. (se of South I.; New Zealand) to Falkland Is. and sw Africa (South Atlantic Ocean), widely in s New Zealand seas and sc Chilean coast (South Pacific Ocean)  Townsend's Shearwater (CR)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus auricularis  PO montane Socorro and Clarion is. (Revillagigedo Is., far w of c Mexico) to coastal waters from s Baja California to Oaxaca (nw to sw Mexico)  Tropical Shearwater i    Procellariidae    Puffinus bailloni  IO, PO tropical Indian and tropical Pacific oceans  Yelkouan Shearwater (VU)  i    Procellariidae    Puffinus yelkouan  AO islets of c, e Mediterranean and w Black Sea throughout Mediterranean and Black Sea 23%   5 species of 21 (0 extinct).   IUCN Status Codes EX Extinct EW Extinct in the wild CR Critically Endangered EN Endangered VU Vulnerable NT Near Threatened LC Least Concern DD Data deficient NE Not evaluated LC not shown.   Breeding Range Codes AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) AN Antarctica AO Atlantic Ocean AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) IO Indian Ocean LA Latin America (Middle and South America) MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama) NA North America (includes the Caribbean) NO Northern oceans OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) PO Pacific Ocean SA South America SO Southern oceans TO Temperate oceans TrO Tropical oceans Worldwide Worldwide