Short-tailed shearwater

Short-tailed shearwater,
Slender-billed shearwater
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Ardenna
Species:
A. tenuirostris
Binomial name
Ardenna tenuirostris
(Temminck, 1836)
Adult near Burrow on Bruny Island. The photograph was taken at night.
Fledgling, Austins Ferry, Tasmania, Australia

The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris; formerly Puffinus tenuirostris), also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, 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.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Ardenna tenuirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698216A132635686. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22698216A132635686.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.