#1207 · 🐦 birds

Yelkouan Shearwater

🇳🇱 Yelkouanpijlstormvogel ·Puffinus yelkouan

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
2. © John D Reynolds · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
4. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
5. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Joaquim Maceira Muchaxo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © ALESSANDRO REGGIANI · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Sergey Yeliseev · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The yelkouan shearwater , Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater ( Puffinus yelkouan ) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,379iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,379 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Giuseppe Acerbi in 1827 (199 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.