White-necked Petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis) has two subspecies.White-necked Petrel often flies low over the sea, following the waves. It feeds on invertebrates such as small fish, squid and crustaceans.White-necked Petrel is a vulnerable species, and is about to become an endangered species, with a...
Mediterranean Shearwater (Scientific name: Puffinus yelkouan) Foreign name Yelkouan Shearwater, Pardela mediterránea, no subspecies. The Mediterranean Shearwater was previously considered a subspecies of the Atlantic Shearwater. After the first differentiation, it has been classified as the "M...
The Galápagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris) is a small shearwater. Until recently it was considered to be a subspecies of Audubon's shearwater, but it is actually one of two members of a very ancient lineage of the small Puffinus species, the other being, as indicated by mtDNA cytochrome b se...