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Puffinus boydi (Boyd's Shearwater)

Synonyms: Puffinus assimilis boydi; Puffinus baroli boydi

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  161 grams
Female Weight [1]  193 grams
Male Weight [1]  130 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  48.5 %
Clutch Size [1]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  72 days
Incubation [1]  51 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0