Wedge-tailed Shearwater ( 
pacificus) 
Current Status: 
Prior Records: 
Infrequent visitor. 
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constitutes the only previous record. 
Population : Wedge-tailed Shearwaters have been seen on only two of the 
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POBSP visits to Enderbury. These vagrant birds 
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from i:he large breeding colony on Phoenix Island, 40 miles southwest of 
Enderbury or v the small colony on McKean Island, l85 miles to the west. 
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On July 1 6 , 1964 birds, one of them-'light phase, sSSs^heard 
calling on the west side of the island and wa# observed digging a burrow 
on top of the "guano hill". On July 17 t he-h - i - l - l - was . revisite d, safes . 
It 
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dark phase feted 
at the mouth of the partially completed 
burrow. On February l6, 1965 one bird was seen offshore at dusk. 
Other Specimens : USEM 358l42, L. P. Schultzs, May 20, 1939. 
'^ Audubon 1 s Shearwater ( Puffinus l’herminieri ) 
Current Status : Infrequent visitor, formerly nested. 
Prior Records : (Be e - at t a ehed-sheet-) Audubon*s Shearwaters have been 
recorded by earlier visitors on three different occasions, all in the early 
20t$r century. 
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On the 
of March l8 £ jf) 9 1924, J. G. Correia of the Whitney Ex¬ 
pedition visited the large n guano hill” toward the north end of the island 
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in the hope# of obtaining specimens. Thadi^evaningy^^^BCTFset, small numbers 
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circled the hill and landed at holes on the hill or in the grass around it. 
They were evidently fairly common since Correia had no difficulty in 
catching ’’some forty” in one night (j. G% Correia - field notes). 
Fourteen years later the island was visited by Walter R. Donaghho who 
found a chick and an adult on an egg at the same ”guano hill”, July 26, 1938 
George C. Munro banded the adult but called it Puffinus assimilis (Donaghho 
1952, Munro 
