Subantarctic Shearwater

Puffinus elegans

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Procellariidae
Genus
Puffinus
eBird Code
litshe4

Distribution

breeds Tristan da Cunha and Gough (Atlantic), and Chatham and Antipodes islands (New Zealand); ranges in South Atlantic to Falkland Islands and southwestern Africa, and widely in South Pacific from southern New Zealand to south-central Chilean coast

Data Sources

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.