Tropical Shearwater

Taxonomy

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae

Genus

Puffinus

eBird Code

troshe5

Subspecies (5)

• Puffinus bailloni bailloni

  breeds Europa (Mozambique Channel) and Réunion (Mascarenes); formerly also Mauritius

• Puffinus bailloni colstoni

  breeds Aldabra Island

• Puffinus bailloni dichrous

  breeds tropical Pacific islands from Mariana and Caroline islands southward to Fiji and eastward ito Marquesas, Gambier and Austral islands

• Puffinus bailloni gunax

  breeds Mere Lava, northern Banks Islands (northern Vanuatu)

• Puffinus bailloni nicolae

  breeds Inner Islands of the Seychelles, and perhaps others in northwestern Indian Ocean