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- Shearwater abstract "Shearwaters are medium-sized long-winged seabirds. There are more than 30 species of shearwaters, a few larger ones in the genus Calonectris and many smaller species in the genus Puffinus. The Procellaria petrels and Bulweria were believed to belong to this group, but are only distantly related based on more recent studies, while the Pseudobulweria and Lugensa "petrels" are more closely related. The genus Puffinus can be divided into a group of small species close to Calonectris and a few larger ones more distantly related to both. One thing that can be agreed upon about taxonomy of Procellariidae is that it is in a state of flux.These birds are most common in temperate and cold waters. They are pelagic outside the breeding season.These tubenose birds fly with stiff wings and use a "shearing" flight technique to move across wave fronts with the minimum of active flight. Some small species, like the Manx shearwater are cruciform in flight, with their long wings held directly out from their bodies.Many are long-distance migrants, perhaps most spectacularly sooty shearwaters, which cover distances in excess of 14,000 km (8,700 mi) from their breeding colony on the Falkland Islands (52°S 60°W) to as far as 70° north latitude in the North Atlantic Ocean off northern Norway. One study found Sooty shearwaters migrating nearly 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) a year, which would give them the longest animal migration ever recorded electronically. Short-tailed shearwaters perform an even longer "figure of eight" loop migration in the Pacific Ocean from Tasmania to as far north as the Arctic Ocean off northwest Alaska.They are also extraordinarily long-lived. A Manx shearwater breeding on Copeland Island, Northern Ireland, is currently (2003/2004) the oldest known wild bird in the world: ringed as an adult (at least 5 years old) in July 1953, it was retrapped in July 2003, at least 55 years old. Manx shearwaters migrate over 10,000 km (6,200 mi) to South America in winter, using waters off southern Brazil and Argentina, so this bird has covered a minimum of 1,000,000 km (620,000 mi) on migration alone.Shearwaters come to islands and coastal cliffs only to breed. They are nocturnal at the colonial breeding sites, preferring moonless nights to minimize predation. They nest in burrows and often give eerie contact calls on their night-time visits. They lay a single white egg.They feed on fish, squid, and similar oceanic food. Some will follow fishing boats to take scraps, commonly the sooty shearwater; these species also commonly follow whales to feed on fish disturbed by them. Their primary technique for feeding is diving and some species diving as much as 70 m (230 ft) under water.Shearwaters are part of the family Procellariidae, which also includes fulmarine petrels, prions, and gadfly petrels.".
- Shearwater class Bird.
- Shearwater class Neoaves.
- Shearwater family Procellariidae.
- Shearwater kingdom Animal.
- Shearwater order Procellariiformes.
- Shearwater phylum Chordate.
- Shearwater thumbnail Puffinus_gravisPCCA20070623-3738B.jpg?width=300.
- Shearwater wikiPageExternalLink petrels-shearwaters-procellariidae.
- Shearwater wikiPageID "208846".
- Shearwater wikiPageLength "8341".
- Shearwater wikiPageOutDegree "86".
- Shearwater wikiPageRevisionID "669513314".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Audubons_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Aves.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Balearic_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Barolo_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Becks_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Bird_nest.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Bird_ringing.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Black-vented_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Black_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Boyds_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Bryans_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Bullers_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Bulweria.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Bulwers_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Burrow_nest.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Calonectris.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Verde_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Category:Seabirds.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Category:Shearwaters.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Christmas_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Copeland_Island.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Copeland_Islands.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Corys_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Falkland_Islands.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Fiji_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Flesh-footed_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Fluttering_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Fulmarine_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Gadfly_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Galápagos_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Great_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Grey_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Heinroths_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Huttons_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Jouanins_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Kerguelen_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Lava_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Little_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Lugensa.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Manx_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Mascarene_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Neoaves.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Neornithes.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Newells_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Olsons_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Pelagic.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Pelagic_zone.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Persian_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Pink-footed_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Prion_(bird).
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Procellaria.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Procellariidae.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Procellariiformes.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Pseudobulweria.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Puffinus.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Seabird.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Short-tailed_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Small_St._Helena_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Sooty_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Species.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Spectacled_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Streaked_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Tahiti_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Tasmania.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Townsends_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Tropical_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Wedge-tailed_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Westland_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Whale.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink White-chinned_petrel.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink Yelkouan_shearwater.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLink File:Unimak_Pass_Shearwater_flock.jpg.
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mutton bird".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "Procellarine petrels".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "Puffinus spp.".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "Shearwater".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "mutton birds".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "muttonbird".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "muttonbirds".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "shear-waters petrels".
- Shearwater wikiPageWikiLinkText "shearwater".
- Shearwater classis Aves.