The subantarctic shearwater (''Puffinus elegans'') is a small bird

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

which breeds in

Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately from Cape Town in South Africa, from Saint Helena ...

, islands of the southern

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

and New Zealand Subantarctic Islands.

Taxonomy

The subantarctic shearwater is sometimes considered a subspecies of the

little shearwater The little shearwater (''Puffinus assimilis'') is a small shearwater in the petrel family Procellariidae. Despite the generic name, it is unrelated to the puffins, which are auks, the only similarity being that they are both burrow-nesting ...

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subantarctic shearwater The subantarctic shearwater (''Puffinus elegans'') is a small bird species which breeds in Tristan da Cunha, islands of the southern Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8 ...

Fauna of Tristan da Cunha Birds of subantarctic islands

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