Mediterranean Shearwater
Puffinus yelkouan
IUCN: Not Evaluated
Taxonomy
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Puffinus
- eBird Code
- medshe1
Subspecies (2)
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Puffinus yelkouan mauretanicus
breeds islets in Balearic Islands; ranges to Atlantic coasts of southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa
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Puffinus yelkouan yelkouan
breeds central and eastern Mediterranean islands and western Black Sea; ranges throughout Mediterranean and Black Sea
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.