Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis
The great shearwater is an ocean-living sea bird that is a wide-ranging migrant and is found across most of the Atlantic Ocean during the course of the year.
Great Shearwater
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Great Shearwater.
When and Where To See
Southern Hemisphere breeder appears in New England waters in late April and remains into early winter. It is attracted by chumming and follows in the wake of the boat.
Thus Islanders in the Tristan da Cunha Islands take about 15 000 to 20 000 eggs from the nesting colonies of The Great Shearwater (Puffinus gravis) every year. The population here is about 4 million birds however so this crop is sustainable.
This species appears to be related to the New Zealand muttonbird and the Great Shearwater, all blunt-tailed, black-billed species, but its precise relationships are obscure (Austin, 1996; Austin et al., 2004).
Natural History References "Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis." Handbook of the Birds of North America: Volume 1. Edited by Ralph S. Palmer. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1976.
Great shearwater (Puffinus gravis)
Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
Pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
Rufous-tailed rock-thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) ...
Puffinus gravis, Great Shearwater
Puffinus pacificus, Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Puffinus bulleri, Buller's Shearwater
Puffinus griseus, Sooty Shearwater
Puffinus tenuirostris, Short-tailed Shearwater or Mutton bird ...
Puffinus gravis - Great Shearwater
Puffinus tenuirostris - Short-tailed Shearwater
Hydrobatidae - Petrels
Oceanodroma
Oceanodroma leucorrhoa - Storm-Petrel
Oceanodroma monorhis - Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel ...
 See also: Shearwater, Lion, Sea Lion, Turtle, Shark
  
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