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title: "Galapagos Shearwater"
description: "Puffinus subalaris — Uccelli. The Galápagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris) is a small shearwater."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/galapagos-shearwater
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Galapagos Shearwater

> Puffinus subalaris — Uccelli. The Galápagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris) is a small shearwater.

- Scientific name: *Puffinus subalaris*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mare e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1347
- Wikidata: [Q1271926](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1271926)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144440](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144440)

## Names

- en: Galapagos Shearwater
- de: Galapagossturmtaucher
- es: Pardela de Galápagos
- fr: Puffin des Galapagos
- pl: Burzyk galapagoski

## Countries with the most observations

EC (886), MX (70), CR (9), SV (7), PA (6)

## Summary

The Galápagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris) is a small shearwater. Until recently it was considered to be a subspecies of Audubon's shearwater, but it is actually one of two members of a very ancient lineage of the small Puffinus species, the other being, as indicated by mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data, the Christmas shearwater.
It is an endemic breeder of the Galápagos Islands, and is largely sedentary, although individuals are commonly seen as far as the Oaxacan coast of Mexico.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_shearwater

## Photo

![Galapagos Shearwater](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/galapagos-shearwater/medium.jpg)

Photo: Edwin Wilke · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/386118565

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/galapagos-shearwater?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).