Wedge-tailed Shearwater - Puffinus pacificus

Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Scientific name: Puffinus pacificus
Higher classification: Puffinus
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:     Aves
Order:     Procellariiformes
Family:     Procellariidae
Genus:     Puffinus
Species:     P. pacificus

      The wedge-tailed shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a muttonbird, like the sooty shearwater of Australia. It ranges across from throughout the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean roughly between latitudes 35°N and 35°S. It breeds on islands off of Japan, on the Islas Revillagigedo, the Hawaiian Islands, the Seychelles and off Eastern and Western Australia. Wedge-tailed Shearwater is migrant or vagrant birds in Sri Lanka.