Critically Endangered
Bryan's Shearwater
Puffinus bryani
Bryan's Shearwater is a tubenose seabird in the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes) — Puffinus bryani, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
It is the smallest species of shearwater and is black and white with a bluish gray beak and blue tarsi.
Range and habitat
Bryan's shearwater is a shearwater that may occur around the Hawaiian Islands. It is rare and possibly threatened and there is little information on its breeding or non-breeding ranges. On February 7, 2012, DNA tests on six specimens found in Ogasawara alive and dead between 1997 and 2011 determined that they were Bryan's shearwaters.
It is assumed that Bryan's shearwaters still survive on some of the uninhabited Bonin Islands. In 2015 a small breeding colony of Bryan's shearwaters was found on the island of Higashijima in Japan.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Bryan's Shearwater is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bryan's Shearwater, Wikidata item Q378778. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
