Short-tailed shearwater: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the short-tailed shearwater lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Ardenna tenuirostris
Group	Seabirds, divers & grebes
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	North America, Oceania
Mass	82 g (birth weight); 544 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Procellariiformes
Family	Procellariidae

Where does the short-tailed shearwater live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the short-tailed shearwater in 2 countries and territories across North America and Oceania. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Australia. Wikidata gives its range as: South America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a short-tailed shearwater?

Wikidata records the following for the short-tailed shearwater: mass 82 g (birth weight); 544 g (adult weight).

Is the short-tailed shearwater endangered?

The short-tailed shearwater’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the short-tailed shearwater?

The short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) is a bird in the order Procellariiformes and the family Procellariidae, genus Ardenna. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the short-tailed shearwater

The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris), also called yula 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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Short-tailed shearwater (revision 1378979342), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q27074605 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).