Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Puffinus pacificus

The wedge-tailed shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a muttonbird, like the sooty shearwater of New Zealand and the short-tailed shearwater of Australia. It is found throughout the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, roughly between latitudes 35°N and 35°S. It breeds on the islands off Japan, on the Islas Revillagigedo, the Hawaiian Islands, the Seychelles, the Northern Mariana Islands, and off Eastern and Western Australia. Source

Where is the Wedge-tailed Shearwater now?

In the last 8 weeks it was recorded 39 times across 2 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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When does the Wedge-tailed Shearwater arrive?

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Arriving at the same time in North America

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
• Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
• Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
• House Wren Troglodytes aedon
• Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
• Purple Martin Progne subis
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
• Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis

Every arrival in North America, month by month

Related species

• Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus

Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured · How it compares with human observers