Short-tailed Shearwater

When to see the Short-tailed 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 Short-tailed Shearwater

The map shades 26 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 India, France, Kuwait, Kiribati.

About the Short-tailed Shearwater

The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater, also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird both in early Australia and in New Zealand, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested. It is a migratory species that breeds mainly on small islands in Bass Strait and Tasmania and migrates to the Northern Hemisphere for the boreal summer.

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Easily confused with

Buller's ShearwaterArdenna bulleriAdults birds are 46–47 cm (18–19 in) in length, with a 97–99 cm (38–39 in) wingspan, and have been recorded to weigh 342–425 g (12.1–15.0 oz). Flesh-footed ShearwaterArdenna carneipesThe flesh-footed shearwater is a medium-large shearwater that mainly inhabits the Indo-Pacific. Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisThis shearwater is 43–51 cm (16.9–20.1 in) in length with a 105–122 cm (3.5–4.0 ft) wingspan.