Mediterranean Shearwater

Mediterranean Shearwater

Mediterranean Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus sensu lato was the name used during the 1990s for what was then regarded as a polytypic species of Puffinus shearwater, but which is now regarded as two separate monotypic species:


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