Puffinus

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Noun1.Puffinus - shearwatersPuffinus - shearwaters        
bird genus - a genus of birds
family Procellariidae, Procellariidae - petrels; fulmars; shearwaters;
shearwater - long-winged oceanic bird that in flight skims close to the waves
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A second species (Puffinus cinereus), which is common to Europe, Cape Horn, and the coast of Peru, is of much smaller size than the P.
Puffinus puffinus - Manx shearwater Milvus milvus - red kite Dives dives - melodious blackbird Bison bison - American bison.
Animals are known to forage both during the day and at night (Watts and Aslin 1981; Gardner and Serena 1995), and to feed on aquatic species ranging in size from insects and spiders to sizable fish and adult waterbirds (including ducks, grebes, Eurasian Coot Fulica atra, Western Purple Swamp Hen Porphyrio porphyrio and Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris) (Woollard et al.
(1) En cuanto a lo biotico presenta la peculiaridad de: (a) no tener especies arboreas del genero Nothofagus, (b) contar endemicamente solo con mamiferos pequenos y (c) tener solo cinco taxa endemicos: el roedor Octodon pacificus (degu del Pacifico), las aves terrestres Aphrastura spinicauda bullocki (rayadito de la mocha), Scelorchilus rubecula mochae (chucao de la mocha) y Turdus falcklandii mochae (zorzal de la mocha), y la ave marina migratoria Puffinus creatopus (fardela blanca).
Aspects of the population ecology of the short-tailed shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris).--Proc.
542 352 lagopus * Grouse 635 413 (unidentified) * Ruffed Grouse Bonasa 591 41% 384 umbellus * Spruce Grouse 595 41% 387 Falcipennis canadensis * Sooty Grouse 1004 653 Dendragapus fuliginosus Sharp-tailed Grouse 720 468 Tympanuchusphasianellus * Short-tailed Shearwater 527 343 Puffinus tenuirostris * Cormorant 1985 1290 (unidentified) * Double-crested Cormorant 2330 1515 Phalacrocorax auritus Red-faced Cormorant 2138 8% 1390 P.
Burrow occupancy and productivity at coastal sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) breeding colonies, South Island, New Zealand: can mark-recapture be used to estimate burrowscope accuracy?
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