Where does the Little Shearwater live?

Puffinus assimilis has 13,052 records in 68 countries and territories, from 1853 to 2026. Most records come from New Zealand.

13,052 records
68 places
113 years recorded
Aves class

AnimaliaChordataAvesProcellariiformesProcellariidaePuffinus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18532026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

Place	Records	Share
New Zealand	2,917
Australia	2,675
Portugal	1,192
Spain	719
France	402
ZZ	318
Chile	298
Norfolk Island	266
Saint Helena	238
United Kingdom	227
Sweden	200
Cabo Verde	186
Norway	159
Germany	150
Finland	148
Italy	145
Russia	141
Poland	127
Greece	123
Ukraine	98
South Africa	83
Iceland	54
Argentina	51
Romania	50
Netherlands	45
Denmark	43
Western Sahara	43
Ireland	41
South Georgia	40
Hungary	39
Belarus	37
Croatia	36
Austria	35
Bulgaria	34
Latvia	33
Czechia	29
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	29
French Southern Territories	29
Falkland Islands	27
Lithuania	27

Showing the top 40 of 68 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Procellariidae.

wedge-tailed shearwater

166,210 records

White-chinned Petrel

124,739 records

short-tailed shearwater

123,756 records

Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.