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Muttonbirding is the seasonal harvesting of the chicks of petrels, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers by recreational or commercial hunters. Such hunting of petrels and other seabirds has occurred in various locations since prehistoric times, and there is evidence that many island populations have become extinct as a result.
HMS Shearwater was a Kingfisher-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Shearwater was laid down at J. Samuel White, Cowes on 15 August 1938. She was launched on 18 April 1939 and commissioned on 7 September 1939. She served during the Second World War and was adopted by Farnborough Urban District Council during Warship Week in 1942. Her anti-aircraft ...
39 173' Magnolia-class bay and sound tender (WAGL) 40 171' first class cruising cutter. 41 166' Tallapoosa class. ... USCGC Shearwater (WPB-87349)
Puffinus gravis, great shearwater breeds on islands in the South Atlantic Ocean; ranges in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Arctic Circle; Puffinus pacificus, wedge-tailed shearwater ranges through tropical Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean; Puffinus bulleri, Buller's shearwater breeds on islands off the coast of New Zealand; ranges across the ...
Many shearwaters are long-distance migrants, perhaps most spectacularly sooty shearwaters, which cover distances in excess of 14,000 km (8,700 mi) from their breeding colonies on the Falkland Islands (52°S 60°W) to as far as 70° north latitude in the North Atlantic Ocean off northern Norway, and around New Zealand to as far as 60° north latitude in the North Pacific Ocean off Alaska.
The wings of all species are long and stiff. In some species of shearwater the wings are used to power the birds underwater while diving for prey. Their heavier wing loadings, in comparison with surface-feeding procellariids, allow these shearwaters to achieve considerable depths (below 70 m (230 ft) in the case of the short-tailed shearwater ...
The Sargasso shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri), formerly known as Audubon's shearwater, is a common tropical seabird in the petrel family. This bird is sometimes known as the dusky-backed shearwater ; [ 2 ] its specific epithet honours the French naturalist Félix Louis L'Herminier .
Puffinus is a genus of seabirds in the order Procellariiformes that contains about 20 small to medium-sized shearwaters.Two other shearwater genera are named: Calonectris, which comprises three or four large shearwaters, and Ardenna with another seven species (formerly often included within Puffinus).
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