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Ardenna tenuirostris

(Temminck, 1835)

Short-tailed Shearwater

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G5SecureGlobal Rank
Least concernIUCN
Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.102589
Element CodeABNDB07070
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVertebrate Animal
IUCNLeast concern
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations, but breeds in a single nation
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCraniata
ClassAves
OrderProcellariiformes
FamilyProcellariidae
GenusArdenna
Synonyms
Puffinus tenuirostris(Temminck, 1835)
Other Common Names
Pardela Cola Corta (ES) Puffin à bec grêle (FR)
Concept Reference
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in The Auk]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.
Taxonomic Comments
Formerly (AOU 1983, 1998) Ardenna was considered part of Puffinus, but now treated as separate on the basis of genetic data (Penhallurick and Wink 2004, Austin et al. 2004, Pyle et al. 2011), which indicate that species in Ardenna and Puffinus form two deeply divergent clades that may not be sister groups. Analyses of morphology and biogeography (Oberholser 1917, Kuroda 1954) had previously recognized species of Puffinus, Ardenna, and the extralimital Calonectris as distinctive groups. Linear sequence of species follows Pyle et al. (2011) (AOU 2016).
Conservation Status
Rank MethodExpertise without calculation
Review Date2016-04-09
Change Date1996-11-20
Range Extent Comments
Breeds on islands off coast (and locally along mainland coast) of southern Australia, with largest numbers around Tasmania and islands of the Bass Strait (see map in Austin et al. 1994). Ranges at sea in southern Australian and New Zealand waters, and north through Pacific Ocean to Bering and Chukchi seas (some to Beaufort Sea), south along west coast of North America to Baja California (Los Coronados Islands).
Threat Impact Comments
Many are killed in the Japanese gill-net fishery in the North Pacific (Lensink 1984, King 1984, Ogi 1984, DeGange and Day 1991).
Ecology & Habitat

Habitat

Nonbreeding: pelagic. Nests in burrows usually on small islands, also on mainland headlands in some areas. Strongly philopatric (Austin et al. 1994).

Ecology

Nonbreeding: may form flocks of at least 10,000s.

Despite strong philopatry, colony founding and recovery from population reductions evidently occur via immigration of a large number of individuals (Austin et al. 1994).

Reproduction

Egg laying occurs in November. Clutch size is 1. Incubation lasts 52-55 days. Tends to retain same mate in successive years. See Wooler et al. (1990). Some islands have colonies of several hundred thousand pairs (Austin et al. 1994).
Other Nations (2)
United StatesNNA
ProvinceRankNative
WashingtonSNAYes
AlaskaS5NYes
CaliforniaSNRNYes
OregonSNAYes
CanadaNUN
ProvinceRankNative
British ColumbiaSUMYes
Roadless Areas (1)
Alaska (1)
AreaForestAcres
South KruzofTongass National Forest55,193
References (25)
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