Biology:Bannerman's shearwater

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Short description: Species of bird

Bannerman's shearwater
Bannerman's Shearwater Puffinus bannermani off Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Puffinus
Species:
P. bannermani
Binomial name
Puffinus bannermani
Mathews & Iredale, 1915

Bannerman's shearwater (Puffinus bannermani) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri).[2]

Range

Little is known of this species other than that it breeds in the Volcano Islands in the Ogasawara Group to the southwest of Japan and doesn't seem to range far from this area.[3]

Population

The species population size has not been estimated but is assessed to be decreasing.

Diet and Habitat

Not much is known about this species and more research is required to obtain an understanding of its ecology. Based on the ecology of closely related species, P. bannermani is thought likely to feed on fish, squid and cephalopods, by surface-seizing, underwater pursuit, including diving and plunging, and pattering (del Hoyo et al. 1992, Brooke 2004). It is likely to nest in rock crevices or burrows and form colonies (del Hoyo et al. 1992).[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3410603 entry