Manx Shearwater
Puffinus puffinus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Puffinus
- eBird Code
- manshe
Vocalizations
purperlibel · CC0_1_0
Subspecies (2)
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Puffinus puffinus canariensis
La Palma and Tenerife (Canary Islands)
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Puffinus puffinus puffinus
breeds North Atlantic, from islands off southern Iceland eastward to France, Azores, and Madeira, and Newfoundland to Massachusetts (southeastern Canada to northeastern USA); ranges to Atlantic coasts of Brazil and Argentina southward to Tierra del Fuego, mostly over continental shelf, and (rarer) along eastern North Pacific coast
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.