Bryan's Shearwater

When to see the Bryan's Shearwater

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Where to see the Bryan's Shearwater

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About the Bryan's Shearwater

Bryan's shearwater is a species of shearwater that may occur around the Hawaiian Islands. It is the smallest species of shearwater and is black and white with a bluish gray beak and blue tarsi. First collected in 1963 and thought to be a little shearwater it was determined using DNA analysis to be distinct in 2011. It is rare and possibly threatened and there is little information on its breeding or non-breeding ranges. The species is named after Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. a former curator of the B. P. Bishop Museum at Honolulu.

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Easily confused with

Rapa ShearwaterPuffinus myrtaeThe Rapa shearwater, is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae. Subantarctic ShearwaterPuffinus elegansThe subantarctic shearwater is a small bird species which breeds in Tristan da Cunha, islands of the southern Indian Ocean and New Zealand Subantarctic Islands. Townsend's ShearwaterPuffinus auricularisTownsend's shearwater is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae.