Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus Lowe, 1921
Order: Procellariiformes Family: Procellariidae Status: Vagrant to Madeira
Puffinus [yelkouan] mauretanicus Biometrics
Wingspan: 76 - 89 cm (Beaman & Madge, 2011)
Total length: 30 - 38 cm (Beaman & Madge, 2011)
Weight: 520 g (Cardona & Esteban, 2002)
Status
Madeira local status by Correia-Fagundes et al, 2021: Occasional
Madeira local status by Romano et al, 2010: Exceptional
Madeira local status by Zino et al, 1995: Only 1 record
Conservation status by the IUCN Red List Categories, 2013: Critically Endangered A4bcde ver 3.1
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