Painted

1910

Published

1932

Volume

2

Plate

93.1

Townsend Shearwater

Puffinus auricularis

This small species is known to breed on islands of the Revillagigedo group in the Pacific ocean several hundred miles southwest of Cape San Lucas. They nest in burrows about five feet long on high parts of the island where coarse grass grows.

BREEDING

RANGE

From Cape San Lucas south to Clipperton island.

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