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Puffinus are the ' smaller ' Puffinus shearwaters ( Manx, Little and Audubon's Shearwaters, for example ), and the Neonectris are the ' larger ' Puffinus shearwaters ( Sooty Shearwaters, for example ); in 2004 it was proposed that Neonectris be split into its own genus, Ardenna.
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Puffinus and are
There are more than 30 species of shearwaters, a few larger ones in the genus Calonectris and many smaller species in the genus Puffinus.
Several genera have been split off over time, as they are closer to the procellarine and Puffinus shearwaters.
Many of the shearwaters in the genus Puffinus are proficient divers.
The colonies of the Greater Shearwater Puffinus gravis are amongst the densest of any procellariid, with 1 pair per m².
Christmas Shearwater s Puffinus nativitatis are one of the surface-breeding procellariids.
Sooty Shearwater s Puffinus griseus are still harvested in New Zealand using traditional techniques
Shearwaters are medium-sized, long-winged seabirds in three genera ( Calonectris, Puffinus, Procellaria ) of the family Procellariidae.
The two most common are the Black-footed albatross ( Phoebastria nigripes ) and Sooty shearwater ( Puffinus griseus ).
The Short-tailed Shearwater or Slender-billed Shearwater ( Puffinus tenuirostris ), also called Yolla or Moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested.
Its closest relatives are probably, but not certainly, the Hawaiian Shearwater ( Puffinus newelli ) and possibly the Manx Shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ) ( Austin, 1996 ; Austin et al., 2004 ).
Puffinus and smaller
** " Puffinus " group – smaller species, closely related to Calonectris
** Puffinus, which is in fact two rather distinct groups of larger and smaller species,
The species closely resembles the Sooty (" Puffinus " griseus ) and Short-tailed Shearwaters (" P ." tenuirostris ), but has dark brown underwings and is smaller.
Puffinus and shearwaters
The shearwaters include the 20 or so species of the genus Puffinus, as well as the five large Procellaria species and the three Calonectris species.
Two genera, Pseudobulweria and Lugensa, have been split from the gadfly petrel genus Pterodroma, with Pseudobulweria being phylogenetically closer to the Puffinus shearwaters than the Pterodroma gadfly petrels,
The Calonectris shearwaters were placed close to the two Puffinus clades ( closer to the Puffinus, or small, clade ) and both were distant to the Procellaria shearwaters.
* Austin, Jeremy J .; Bretagnolle, Vincent & Pasquet, Eric ( 2004 ): A global molecular phylogeny of the small Puffinus shearwaters and implications for systematics of the Little-Audubon's Shearwater complex.
Puffinus, which comprises about twenty small to medium-sized shearwaters, and Procellaria with another four large species.
Bulweria petrels have long been considered related to the gadfly petrels in the genus Pterodroma, but recent mtDNA cytochrome b sequence analysis has proven them to be closely related to the shearwaters in the genus Puffinus and especially the Procellaria petrels ( Bretagnolle et al., 1998 ).
* Austin, Jeremy J .; Bretagnolle, Vincent & Pasquet, Eric ( 2004 ): A global molecular phylogeny of the small Puffinus shearwaters and implications for systematics of the Little-Audubon's Shearwater complex.
* Austin, Jeremy J .; Bretagnolle, Vincent & Pasquet, Eric ( 2004 ): A global molecular phylogeny of the small Puffinus shearwaters and implications for systematics of the Little-Audubon's Shearwater complex.
* Austin, Jeremy J .; Bretagnolle, Vincent & Pasquet, Eric ( 2004 ): A global molecular phylogeny of the small Puffinus shearwaters and implications for systematics of the Little-Audubon's Shearwater complex.
Puffinus and Manx
Modern genera began their wide radiation in the Miocene, although the genus Puffinus ( which includes today's Manx Shearwater and Sooty Shearwater ) might date back to the Oligocene.
The name puffin – puffed in the sense of swollen – was originally applied to the fatty salted meat of young birds of the unrelated species Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus.
** Puffinus puffinus, Manx Shearwater
* Puffinus puffinus Manx Shearwater
The Manx Shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.
Of these, only the Hawaiian and possibly Townsend's Shearwaters seem to be somewhat closely related to the Manx Shearwater ( Austin 1996 ); the former Puffinus puffinus " superspecies " has turned out to be a number of more or less distantly related lineages.
& Haney, J. C. ( 1996 ): Manx Shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ), In: The Birds of North America, No. 257, ( Poole, A.
It was long regarded a subspecies of the Manx Shearwater ; see there for more on the Puffinus puffinus superspecies ; following an initial split it was held to be a subspecies of the " Mediterranean Shearwater " ( Sibley & Monroe 1990 ) for nearly ten more years, until it was resolved to be a distinct species, separate from the Yelkouan Shearwater ( Wink et al.
* Manx Shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ), a sea bird
It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Manx Shearwater ; see there for more on the Puffinus puffinus superspecies.
Puffinus and Little
** Puffinus assimilis, Little Shearwater
* Puffinus assimilis Little Shearwater
Puffinus and Audubon's
Other nesting native birds include Red-tailed Tropicbirds ( Phaethon rubricauda ), Wedge-Tailed Shearwaters ( Puffinus pacificus ), Audubon's Shearwater ( Puffinus iherminierii ), Black-Naped Terns ( Sterna sumatrana ), White ( or Fairy ) Terns ( Gygis alba ), Striated Herons ( Butorides striatus ), and White-breasted Waterhens ( Amaurornis phoenicurus ),
Seabirds include the second largest colony in the western Indian Ocean of Great Frigatebirds ( with up to 1100 pairs ), Audubon's Shearwaters ( up to 100 pairs, probably of the subspecies Puffinus lherminieri bailloni previously considered endemic to the Mascarene Islands ), Dimorphic Egrets and Caspian Terns.
** Puffinus lherminieri, Audubon's Shearwater
* Puffinus lherminieri Audubon's Shearwater
** ( Tropical ) Audubon's Shearwater ( Puffinus lherminieri / bailloni )
Puffinus and Shearwaters
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
* ( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
This is due to the presence of tens of thousands of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters ( Puffinus pacificus ) during breeding season.
* ( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
( 1996 ): Molecular Phylogenetics of Puffinus Shearwaters: Preliminary Evidence from Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Gene Sequences.
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