Short-tailed Shearwater

Puffinus tenuirostris

Also known as: Slender-billed Shearwater

36 cm (14") Wings 97 cm (38") Uncommon. Open Pacific Ocean. Best seen in fall and winter. Was called Slender-billed Shearwater. Uniformly dark but often with pale underwings. Bill all dark. Almost identical to Sooty Shearwater but smaller with less white underwings.

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Credit: Rein Hofman