Persian Shearwater

When to see the Persian Shearwater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Persian Shearwater

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 4 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 Mayotte, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Australia.

About the Persian Shearwater

The Persian shearwater is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly lumped in with Audubon's shearwater.

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Easily confused with

Barolo ShearwaterPuffinus baroliThe 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. 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.