Puffinus lherminieri
– Least Concern
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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PROCELLARIIFORMES
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Family:
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PROCELLARIIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Puffinus lherminieri
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Species Authority:
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Lesson, 1839
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Synonym/s:
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Puffinus bannermani Mathews & Iredale, 1915 Puffinus persicus Hume, 1983
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Common Name/s:
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| English | — | AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER |
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Taxonomic Notes:
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Puffinus bannermani, P. persicus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) and P. subalaris (SACC 2005) are lumped with P. lherminieri following Brooke (2004).
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LC ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2006
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Butchart, S. & Temple, H. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global breeding Extent of Occurrence of 50,000-100,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 60,000 individuals (M. Crosby in litt. 2003). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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Countries:
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Native:
Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory; Canada; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Costa Rica; Cuba; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Fiji; French Polynesia; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Maldives; Martinique; Mauritius; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Montserrat; Mozambique; Netherlands Antilles; New Caledonia; Nicaragua; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Puerto Rico; Qatar; Réunion; Saint Helena; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Saudi Arabia; Seychelles; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United Arab Emirates; United States; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Yemen
Vagrant:
Australia; Egypt; Israel; Kuwait
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial; Marine
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