Boyd's Shearwater

When to see the Boyd's Shearwater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Boyd's Shearwater

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Spain.

About the Boyd's Shearwater

Boyd's shearwater, also known as the Cape Verde little shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Cape Verde archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean some 570 km off the coast of West Africa. The epithet commemorates British ornithologist Arnold Boyd.

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Easily confused with

Bannerman's ShearwaterPuffinus bannermaniBannerman's shearwater is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater. Heinroth's ShearwaterPuffinus heinrothiHeinroth's shearwater is a poorly known seabird in the family Procellariidae. Townsend's ShearwaterPuffinus auricularisTownsend's shearwater is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae.