Boyd's shearwater

Boyd's shearwater
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Procellariidae
Genus:	Puffinus
Species:	P. boydi
Binomial name
	Puffinus boydi; Mathews, 1912
Synonyms
	P. assimilis boydi; P. lherminieri boydi; P. baroli boydi; P. parvus;

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.

Sexual Segregation[edit]

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 spacial 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.^[1]

Taxonomy[edit]

Boyd's shearwater is sometimes considered a subspecies of either the little shearwater, Audubon's shearwater or Macaronesian shearwater. It has also been shown to be synonymous with the extinct Puffinus parvus Shufeldt of Bermuda.

References[edit]

^ Santos, Ivo dos; Ramos, Jaime A.; Ceia, Filipe R.; Rodrigues, Isabel; Almeida, Nathalie; Antunes, Stefan; Carreiro, Ana R.; Matos, Diana M.; Lopes, Ricardo J. (2022-03-15). "Sexual Segregation in the Foraging Distribution, Behaviour, and Trophic Niche of the Endemic Boyd's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri Boydi)". doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1428025/v1. Retrieved 2023-09-21.

"Cape Verde Little Shearwater". Avibase. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
Olson, Storrs L. (2010). "Stasis and turnover in small shearwaters on Bermuda over the last 400 000 years (Aves: Procellariidae: Puffinus lherminieri group)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 99 (4): 699–707. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01393.x.

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[1] Santos, Ivo dos; Ramos, Jaime A.; Ceia, Filipe R.; Rodrigues, Isabel; Almeida, Nathalie; Antunes, Stefan; Carreiro, Ana R.; Matos, Diana M.; Lopes, Ricardo J. (2022-03-15). "Sexual Segregation in the Foraging Distribution, Behaviour, and Trophic Niche of the Endemic Boyd's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri Boydi)". doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1428025/v1. Retrieved 2023-09-21.

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