Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels
Tropical Shearwater
Puffinus bailloni
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels (Procellariidae)
- Order
- Procellariiformes
Overview
The tropical shearwater (Puffinus bailloni) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri).
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Continents
Countries
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Cook Islands
- Djibouti
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Japan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- Tonga
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Tropical shearwater
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
