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Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck, 1835) Family: petrels, shearwaters Order: Procellariiformes print version
Short-tailed shearwater Puffin à bec grêle Pardela de Tasmania Kurzschwanz-Sturmtaucher
Migration: interoceanic transequatorial

Verbreitungskarte von Puffinus tenuirostris Transequatorial migrant. After breeding most birds move N past Japan to winter off Aleutian Is, some moving N of Bering Strait; return route over C Pacific, some moving down W coast of N America. Apparently some regular movement into N Indian Ocean.   (del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds), 1992)


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(Last update: 26.04.04 by E.Heuel)