The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·72593SpeciesAves71 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Birds
  5. ›Tubenoses
  6. ›Shearwaters and Petrels
  7. ›Calonectris
Cape Verde Shearwater
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Duarte Frade, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Duarte Frade · via iNaturalist
IUCN NT · Near threatened

On eBird ↗

Cape Verde Shearwater

Live sightings near you, the range map, bar charts of when it is seen, and Macaulay Library photos and recordings.

Cape Verde Shearwater

Calonectris edwardsii

The Cape Verde shearwater (Calonectris edwardsii), or cagarra locally, is a medium-large shearwater, a seabird in the petrel family Procellariidae. It is endemic to the Cape Verde archipelago of Macaronesia in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Calonectris edwardsii in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 72593.