Boyd's shearwater

Boyd's shearwater
Scientific classification
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;

Egg of Puffinus boydi
(coll.MHNT)

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.

Taxonomy[]

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[]

"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. Archived from the original on 2013-01-28.

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