Great shearwater

Great shearwater
Ten miles off Sagres, Portugal
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Ardenna
Species:
A. gravis
Binomial name
Ardenna gravis
(O'Reilly, 1818)
Synonyms
  • Procellaria gravis O'Reilly, 1818
  • Puffinus gravis (protonym)

The great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It breeds colonially on rocky islands in the south Atlantic. Outside the breeding season it ranges widely in the Atlantic.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Ardenna gravis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698201A132633747. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22698201A132633747.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.