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- Puffinus abstract "Puffinus is a genus of seabirds in the order Procellariiformes. It comprises about 20 small to medium-sized shearwaters. Two other shearwater genera are named: Calonectris, which comprises three large shearwaters, and Procellaria with another four large species. The latter are usually called petrels, although they are thought to be more closely related to the shearwaters than to the other petrels. Despite the resemblance in the name, the puffins are auks, and completely unrelated to the shearwaters in the genus Puffinus; the genus name Puffinus is actually a New Latin loanword based on the English \"puffin\". The original Latin term for shearwaters was usually the catchall name for sea-birds, mergus.The taxonomy of this group is the cause of much debate, and the number of recognised species depends on the source. The species in this group are long-winged birds, dark brown or black above, and white to dark brown below. They are pelagic outside the breeding season. They are most common in temperate and cold waters. 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, such as 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 the sooty and short-tailed shearwaters, which perform migrations of 14,000 km or more each year.Puffinus shearwaters come to islands and coastal cliffs only to breed. They are nocturnal at the colonial breeding sites, preferring moonless nights to minimise 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, notably the sooty shearwater; these species also commonly follow whales to feed on fish disturbed by them.".
- Puffinus class Bird.
- Puffinus family Procellariidae.
- Puffinus kingdom Animal.
- Puffinus order Procellariiformes.
- Puffinus phylum Chordate.
- Puffinus synonym "* Hemipuffinus".
- Puffinus synonym "* Neonectris".
- Puffinus synonym "* Thyellodroma".
- Puffinus thumbnail Puffinus_griseus.png?width=300.
- Puffinus wikiPageID "1064122".
- Puffinus wikiPageLength "10603".
- Puffinus wikiPageOutDegree "85".
- Puffinus wikiPageRevisionID "701403995".
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Albatross.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Ardenna.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Audubons_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Auk.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Balearic_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Bannermans_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Barolo_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Bird_egg.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Bird_migration.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Bird_nest.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Black-vented_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Boyds_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Bryans_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Calonectris.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bird_genera.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Puffinus.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Shearwaters.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Christmas_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Clade.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Dune_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Extinction.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Fish.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Fluttering_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Gadfly_petrel.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Galápagos_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Gregory_Mathews.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Heinroths_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Huttons_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Kerguelen_petrel.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Larus.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Late_Quaternary_prehistoric_birds.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Lava_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Leonhard_Stejneger.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink List_of_recently_extinct_birds.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Little_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Loanword.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Lumpers_and_splitters.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Manx_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Marine_mammal.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Mathurin_Jacques_Brisson.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Mergus.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink New_Latin.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Newells_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Oxford_University_Press.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Paraphyly.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Persian_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Petrel.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Pliocene.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Plotornis.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Procellaria.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Procellariidae.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Procellariiformes.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Pseudobulweria.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Puffin.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Puffinus_nestori.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Rapa_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Helena_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Scarletts_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Seabird.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Short-tailed_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Sooty_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Squid.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Subantarctic_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Tom_Iredale.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Townsends_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Tropical_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Tubenose.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Whale.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink Yelkouan_shearwater.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink File:Puffinus.png.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLink File:Puffinus_tenuirostris_2.jpg.
- Puffinus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Puffinus".
- Puffinus classis Bird.
- Puffinus familia Procellariidae.
- Puffinus genus "Puffinus".
- Puffinus genusAuthority "Brisson, 1760".
- Puffinus imageCaption "Sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus".
- Puffinus imageWidth "250".
- Puffinus name "Puffinus".