The great shearwater is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. ''Ardenna'' was first used to refer to a seabird by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, and ''gravis'' is Latin for "heavy".
The great shearwater's relationships are unclear. It belongs in the group of large species that have been separated as genus ''Ardenna'' ; within these, it might be allied with the other black-billed, blunt-tailed species, the short-tailed shearwater and especially the sooty.. more
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Uploaded Jul 27, 2016. Captured Apr 9, 2016 08:45 in Unnamed Road, Cape Peninsula, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Just to explain to you, the country is not detected because Google Maps probably considers this location to be outside of the countries' borders. It's still a species intro on your name though, just not a country intro. Posted 9 years ago