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The
short-tailed shearwater
(
Puffinus tenuirostris
) is a
shearwater
which breeds in Australia and migrates northwards during the austral winter. The chicks of this species, one of the most common
seabirds
in Australian waters, are
commercially harvested
.
Photograph:
JJ Harrison
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