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Buller’s shearwater

(Puffinus bulleri)

Description

The Buller's shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) is a Pacific species of seabird in the family Procellariidae;it is also known as the grey-backed shearwater or New Zealand shearwater.A member of the black-billed wedge-tailed Thyellodroma group,among the larger shearwaters of the genus Ardenna,it forms a superspecies with the wedge-tailed shearwater (A.pacificus).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Aves
Order:Procellariiformes
Family:Procellariidae
Genus:Puffinus
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