Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis [O'Reilly, 1818] |
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Page updated:16-January-2013 |
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Order:
Procellariiformes
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Family: Procellariidae |
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BTO Codes:
GQ, GRTSH
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EURING No: 400 | |
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Number in Britain:
Unavailable
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Conservation Status:
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Status in UK:
(A) Passage Visitor
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Subspecies:
Monotypic
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Length:
47 cm
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Wingspan: 109 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 830 g
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Scientific name from:
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English: puffin (from puff+ing) and L.: gravis=heavy |
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World Distribution:
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BREEDS: is of s Atlantic (Falklands, Tristan da Cunha), RANGES: Atlantic |
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Habitat:
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Pelagic, breeds in island burrows |
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Diet:
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Mostly small fish and squid from surface or below |
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TitBit:
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The long thin wings of the shearwater are adapted to exploiting the air currents that eddy above the waters surface with minimum effort, one Great Shearwater is recorded to have glided continuously for 1 1/2 miles (2.4 km). |
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Other Names |
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| Greater Shearwater | |
| Gaelic: Fachach-mòr | Welsh: Aderyn-Drycin Mawr |
| Danish: Storskråpe | Dutch: Grote pijlstormvogel |
| Finnish: Isoliitäjä | French: Puffin majeur |
| German: Kappensturmtaucher | Hungarian: Nagy vészmadár |
| Icelandic: Hettuskrofa | Irish: Cánóg Mhór |
| Italian: Berta dell’Atlantico | Norwegian: Storlire |
| Polish: Burzyk wielki | Portuguese: Pardela-de-bico-preto |
| Spanish: Pardela capirotada | Swedish: Större lira |
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For More Information... |
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Books and Monographs:
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| Brooke, M. de L. 2004 Albatrosses and petrels across the world Oxford University Press, Oxford [598.44 BRO] | |
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| Wikipedia entry | |
| BirdLife species page | |
| Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides | |
| Details from the Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter | |
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