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title: "Burzyk śródziemnomorski"
description: "Puffinus yelkouan — Ptaki. The yelkouan shearwater, Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/yelkouan-shearwater
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Burzyk śródziemnomorski

> Puffinus yelkouan — Ptaki. The yelkouan shearwater, Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.

- Scientific name: *Puffinus yelkouan*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 1355
- Wikidata: [Q511566](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511566)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4109](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4109)

## Names

- en: Yelkouan Shearwater
- de: Mittelmeersturmtaucher
- es: Pardela mediterránea
- fr: Puffin yelkouan
- nl: Yelkouanpijlstormvogel
- pt: Fura-bucho-do-mediterrâneo
- pl: Burzyk śródziemnomorski

## Countries with the most observations

TR (290), FR (199), IT (123), GR (89), UA (72), RU (63), ES (38), HR (27), DZ (14), IL (10), GE (9), BG (5)

## Summary

The yelkouan shearwater, Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelkouan_shearwater

## Photo

![Burzyk śródziemnomorski](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yelkouan-shearwater/medium.jpg)

Photo: John Kenrick Gibson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117561281

## Machine access

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