Boyd's Shearwater (Puffinus boydi)
About the Boyd's Shearwater
Boyd's shearwater (Puffinus boydi), also known as the Cape Verde little shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Cape Verde archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean some 570 km off the coast of West Africa. The epithet commemorates British ornithologist Arnold Boyd. Females take longer foraging trips and travel further north. This seems to be driven by differing preferences for chlorophyll concentration and sea surface temperature. Overall spatial overlap of sexes is low. However, their diets are the same, consisting of fish, fish larvae, and squid. Both males and females feed chicks, but the males contribute more. This may be because females spend more time incubating eggs and are therefore more deprived of nutrition.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 1 recording for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Spain in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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- Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinusrecording
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