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Puffinus lherminieri

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AVES PROCELLARIIFORMES PROCELLARIIDAE

Scientific Name: Puffinus lherminieri
Species Authority: Lesson, 1839
Common Name/s:
English – Audubon's Shearwater
French – Puffin d'Audubon
Taxonomic Notes: Puffinus bannermani, P. persicus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) and P. subalaris (SACC 2005) are lumped with P. lherminieri following Brooke (2004).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published: 2012
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Reviewer/s: Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
Contributor/s:
Justification:
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is very large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History:
2009 – Least Concern
2008 – Least Concern
2006 – Least Concern
2004 – Not Recognized
2000 – Not Recognized
1994 – Not Recognized
1988 – Not Recognized

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: Audubon's Shearwater ranges across the Indian Ocean as far north as the Arabian Sea, throughout the northeast and central Pacific (including the Galapagos Islands), and in western Atlantic including the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico (del Hoyo et al. 1992).
Countries:
Native:
Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba; British Indian Ocean Territory; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador (Galápagos); Ecuador (Galápagos); El Salvador; Fiji; French Polynesia; Grenada; Guam; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Maldives; Martinique; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Montserrat; Mozambique; New Caledonia; Nicaragua; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Puerto Rico; Réunion; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Saudi Arabia; Seychelles; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United Arab Emirates; United States; United States Minor Outlying Islands; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Yemen
Vagrant:
Australia; Belize; Bermuda; Brazil; Canada; Egypt; Guadeloupe; Israel; Kuwait; Sri Lanka
Present - origin uncertain:
American Samoa (American Samoa); Cook Islands; French Southern Territories (the); Gambia; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Indonesia; Kiribati; Madagascar; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Nauru; Niue; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Samoa; Senegal; Tanzania, United Republic of; Tokelau; Tuvalu; Wallis and Futuna; Western Sahara
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Population [top]

Population: Brooke (2004) estimated the global population to number around 500,000 individuals.
Population Trend: Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: This species breeds on oceanic islands, coral atolls and rocky offshore islets, mainly on cliffs and earthy slopes. Its diet comprises of mainly fish, squid and crustaceans which it obtains by pursuit-diving, pursuit-plunging, pattering and surface-seizing. This species is occasionally seen attending small fishing vessels (del Hoyo et al. 1992).
Systems: Terrestrial; Marine
Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Puffinus lherminieri. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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