Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis)

About Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Birds
• Order: Tubenoses
• Family: Shearwaters and Petrels

The great shearwater is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It breeds colonially on rocky islands in the south Atlantic. Outside the breeding season it ranges widely in the Atlantic.