Balearic shearwater

The Balearic shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family ''Procellariidae''. ''Puffinus'' is a New Latin loanword based on the English "puffin" and its variants, that referred to the cured carcass of the fat nestling of the Manx shearwater, a former delicacy. The specific ''mauretanicus'' refers to Mauretania, an old name for an area of North Africa roughly corresponding to Morocco and Algeria.