Bannerman's shearwater

Bannerman's shearwater (Puffinus bannermani) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae formerly considered conspecific with Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri).[2]

Bannerman's shearwater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Puffinus
Species:
P. bannermani
Binomial name
Puffinus bannermani
(Mathews & Iredale, 1915)

Range

Little is known of this species other than that it breeds in the Volcano Islands in the Ogasawara Group to the southwest of Japan and doesn't seem to range far from this area.[3]

Population

The species population size has not been estimated but is assessed to be decreasing.

Diet and Habitat

Not much is known about this species and more research is required to obtain an understanding of its ecology. Based on the ecology of closely related species, P. bannermani is thought likely to feed on fish, squid and cephalopods, by surface-seizing, underwater pursuit, including diving and plunging, and pattering (del Hoyo et al. 1992, Brooke 2004). It is likely to nest in rock crevices or burrows and form colonies (del Hoyo et al. 1992).[4]

References
  1. Birdlife International (2014). "Puffinus bannermani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "Loons, penguins, petrels". International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
  3. "Puffinus bannermani range map". International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
  4. "Puffinus bannermani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
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