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Large Shearwaters
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Large Shearwaters

Calonectris

Calonectris is a genus of seabirds. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek kalos, "good" and nectris, "swimmer".

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Cory's Shearwater

speciesCalonectris borealis

Scopoli's Shearwater

speciesCalonectris diomedea

Streaked Shearwater

speciesCalonectris leucomelas

Cape Verde Shearwater

speciesCalonectris edwardsii

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4185.