Great shearwater
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It breeds colonially on rocky islands in the south Atlantic. Outside the breeding season it ranges widely in the Atlantic.
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Great shearwater | |
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Ten miles off Sagres, Portugal | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Procellariiformes |
Family: | Procellariidae |
Genus: | Ardenna |
Species: | A. gravis |
Binomial name | |
Ardenna gravis (O'Reilly, 1818) | |
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