Sargasso Shearwater

Taxonomy

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae

Genus

Puffinus

eBird Code

audshe

Subspecies (2)

• Puffinus lherminieri lherminieri

  breeds locally in northern Caribbean, on islets of Bahamas, off northern Cuba, east of Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles, and Providencia; formerly Bermuda

• Puffinus lherminieri loyemilleri

  breeds locally in southwestern Caribbean, on islets off eastern Panama and Venezuela, and Fernando de Noronha (off northern Brazil)