NOTES ON THE FEEDING BEHAVIOR OF BULLER'S SHEARWATER

Abstract

Buller's Shearwater (Puffinus bulleri) breeds only on Poor Knights Island in northern New Zealand (Jenkins 1974) and migrates north across the tropics to spend its non-breeding season (the boreal summer) in the subarctic Pacific Ocean (Wahl 1985). It is one of the least-known Pacific shearwaters, perhaps because of its restricted breeding range and small population size.