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Shearwaters and Petrels

Yelkouan Shearwater

Puffinus yelkouan

The yelkouan shearwater, Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Manx shearwater.

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