Little Shearwater
Puffinus assimilis
The little shearwater 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 seabirds.
- Scientific name
- Puffinus assimilis
- Family
- Shearwaters and Petrels
- IUCN status
- LC