Townsend's Shearwater
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| Townsend's Shearwater Conservation status: Critical | ||||||||||||||
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| Puffinus auricularis Townsend, 1890 |
The Townsend's Shearwater, Puffinus auricularis is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae. It breeds around Cerro Evermann on Socorro in the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico. The main threat to this species comes from feral cats introduced to Socorro in the early 1970s. Sheep are also destroying breeding habitat. The species bred on the island of Clarión until 1988, where habitat and nesting sites were destroyed by introduced pigs, sheep and rabbits.
