Short-tailed shearwater

Adult near Burrow on Bruny Island. The photograph was taken at night. | image = Puffinus tenuirostris - SE Tasmania.jpg | genus = Ardenna | species = tenuirostris | authority = (Temminck, 1836) | range_map = Ardenna tenuirostris map.svg }}

The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater (''Ardenna tenuirostris''; formerly ''Puffinus tenuirostris''), also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested. It is a migratory species that breeds mainly on small islands in Bass Strait and Tasmania and migrates to the Northern Hemisphere for the boreal summer. Provided by Wikipedia

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