Subantarctic Shearwater

When to see the Subantarctic Shearwater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Subantarctic Shearwater

The map shades 7 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 Australia, Argentina, South Africa, Uruguay.

About the Subantarctic Shearwater

The subantarctic shearwater is a small bird species which breeds in Tristan da Cunha, islands of the southern Indian Ocean and New Zealand Subantarctic Islands.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Rapa ShearwaterPuffinus myrtaeThe Rapa shearwater, is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae. Bryan's ShearwaterPuffinus bryaniBryan's shearwater is a species of shearwater that may occur around the Hawaiian Islands. Townsend's ShearwaterPuffinus auricularisTownsend's shearwater is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae.