Scopoli's shearwater

Scopoli's shearwater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Calonectris
Species: C. diomedea
Binomial name
Calonectris diomedea
(Scopoli, 1769)

Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) is a bird in the Procellariidae family formerly considered conspecific with Cory's shearwater (Calonectris borealis). It has no subspecies.[2]

Range

Calonectris diomedea breeds across the Mediterranean; on Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera, Cabrera, Conillera and Dragonera in the Balearics; on the Îles d'Hyères in France; on Elba, small islands off Sardinia and Sicily, Pantelleria and Lampedusa in Italy; In Malta; on coastal Croatian islands and parts of the mainland; on Kythira, Kolpos and the Cyclades in Greece.[3]
The majority of the population spends the non-breeding season in the Atlantic, including areas off the west coast of Africa and east coast of Brazil.[4]

Diet

Diet is mostly squid, which are obtained mainly by surface-seizing. It is regularly attracted to trawlers to feed on offal.[4]

References


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