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Marine160 g
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The Barolo shearwater is visually similar to the Manx shearwater and other North Atlantic Puffinus, but can be distinguished by features such as a pale face with a darkly contrasting eye, a silvery panel in the upperwings, shorter more rounded wings, and blue feet.
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When to see the Barolo Shearwater
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Barolo Shearwater
The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 5 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Morocco, Cape Verde.
About the Barolo Shearwater
The Barolo shearwater, also known as the North Atlantic little shearwater or Macaronesian shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Azores and Canaries of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. The English name and the specific baroli refers to Carlo Tencredi Falletti, marquis of Barolo.
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Easily confused with
Persian ShearwaterPuffinus persicusThe Persian shearwater is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly lumped in with Audubon's shearwater.
Newell's ShearwaterPuffinus newelliIt is a fairly small shearwater, 33 centimetres (13 in) in length.
Christmas ShearwaterPuffinus nativitatisThe Christmas shearwater is a slender-bodied shearwater, about 36 cm long, with a wingspan of around 75 cm, and weighs around 350 g.
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