🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Tropical Shearwater live?

Puffinus bailloni has 9,486 records in 40 countries and territories, from 1877 to 2026. Most records come from Réunion.

AnimaliaChordataAvesProcellariiformesProcellariidaePuffinus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Réunion 7,536
Seychelles 622
French Polynesia 409
Tonga 112
Palau 107
British Indian Ocean Territory 95
Vanuatu 90
Kiribati 73
Micronesia 59
Fiji 44
South Africa 38
ZZ 36
Mauritius 34
Solomon Islands 32
Samoa 26
Maldives 25
American Samoa 18
Taiwan 18
Cook Islands 13
Sri Lanka 13
Northern Mariana Islands 9
French Southern Territories 9
Comoros 7
Mozambique 6
Wallis & Futuna 6
Indonesia 5
India 5
Christmas Island 4
Kenya 4
New Caledonia 4
Mayotte 4
Japan 3
Chile 2
Pitcairn 2
Portugal 2
Tanzania 2
Antarctica 1
Australia 1
France 1
Nauru 1

Related animals

Others in the family Procellariidae.

Northern Fulmar
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sooty shearwater
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308,993 records
Manx Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
203,395 records
great shearwater
171,256 records
wedge-tailed shearwater
wedge-tailed shearwater
166,210 records
White-chinned Petrel
White-chinned Petrel
124,739 records
short-tailed shearwater
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.