Tropical Shearwater

When to see the Tropical Shearwater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Tropical Shearwater

The map shades 20 countries with regular records, and 7 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 South Africa, Taiwan, India, Mayotte, Japan, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna.

About the Tropical Shearwater

The tropical shearwater is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater.

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Easily confused with

Little ShearwaterPuffinus assimilisThis shearwater has the typically "shearing" flight of the genus, dipping from side to side on stiff wings with few beats, the wingtips almost touching the water, though in light winds it has a more flapping flight than that of its larger relatives. Persian ShearwaterPuffinus persicusThe Persian shearwater is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly lumped in with Audubon's shearwater. 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.