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Puffinus newelli Henshaw, 1900

Newell's shearwater, ‘a‘o

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2010:119):

Puffinus newelli Henshaw, 1900: Auk 17: 246 – Waihee Valley, Ulani [= Maui Island], Hawaiian
Islands, Pacific Ocean.; Puffinus puffinus newelli Henshaw; Mathews 1934, Novit. Zool. 39(2): 179.; Puffinus auricularis newelli Henshaw; Jehl 1982, Le Gerfaut 72: 130.; Puffinus newelli Henshaw; Taylor 1996, Notornis 43: 188.

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1908 or before

Rediscovered in 1947

IUCN RedList status: Endangered

 

Distribution

Hawaiian Islands, USA & Rapa Island (=Rapa Iti), French Polynesia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Henshaw 1900 Auk 17 p.246


Other references:

Ainley, D. G., Podolsky, R., Deforest, L., Spencer, G. and Nur, N. (2001) The status and population trends of the Newell’s Shearwater on Kaua’i: insights from modeling. Stud. Avian Biol. 22: 108–123.

Ainley, D. G.; Telfer, T. C.; Reynolds, M. H. 1997. Townsend's and Newell's Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis). In: Poole, A.; Gill, F. (ed.), The birds of North America, No. 297, pp. 1-20. The Academy of Natural Sciences and The American Ornithologists' Union, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

Ainley, D. G., Telfer, T. C., Reynolds, M. H. and Raine, A. F. (2019). Newell’s Shearwater (Puffinus newelli), version 2.0. In The birds of North America. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Ainley, D. G., Walker, W. A., Spencer, G. and Holmes, N. D. (2014) The prey of Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli in Hawaiian waters. Mar. Ornithol. 44: 69–72.

Anon. 2007. A refuge for shearwaters: minimizing bird collisions on Kauai. Bird Conservation: 16-17.

BirdLife International. 2016. Puffinus newelli. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22698240A93673238. Downloaded on 13 June 2017.

Brooke, M. de L. 2004. Albatrosses and Petrels Across the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Byrd, G. V., Sincock, J. L., Telfer, T. C., Moriarty, D. I. and Brady, B. G. (1984) A cross-fostering experiment with Newell’s race of Manx Shearwater. J. Wildl. Manage. 48: 163.

Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 119]

Cooper, B. A.; Day, R. H. 1998. Summer behaviour and mortality of Dark-rumped Petrels and Newell's Shearwaters at power lines on Kauai. Colonial Waterbirds 21: 11-19.

Cooper, B. A.; Day, R. H. 2003. Movement of the Hawaiian Petrel to inland breeding sites on Maui Island, Hawai'i. Waterbirds 26: 62-71.

Day, R. H.; Cooper, B. A.; Telfer, T. C. 2000. Decline of Newell's Shearwaters on Kauai, Hawaii.

Day, R. H.; Cooper, B. A.; Telfer, T. C. 2003. Decline of Townsend's (Newell's) Shearwaters (Puffinus auricularis newelli) on Kauai, Hawaii. The Auk 120: 669-679.

Griesemer, A.M. & Holmes, N.D. (2011) Newell’s shearwater population modeling for Habitat Conservation Plan and Recovery Planning. Honolulu: University of Hawaii at Manoa, The Hawaii Pacific Island Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit and Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit. Technical Report 176. 

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N. and Kirwan, G.M. 2014. Newell's Shearwater (Puffinus newelli). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. and de Juana, E. (eds), Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Harrison, C. S. 2009. Conservation of Newell's Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels. Pacific Seabirds 36(2): 45.

Holmes, N., Freifeld, H., Duvall, F., Raine, A., Laut, M., Penniman, J., Hu, D. & Bailey, C. (2015) Newell’s Shearwater and Hawaiian Petrel Recovery: A Five-year Action Plan. http://kauaiseabirdhcp.com/mt-content/uploads/2016/05/
nesh_hape_banp_action_plan-final_usfws-2015-11-13.pdf

James, Helen F. (1987). A late Pleistocene avifauna from the island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. Doc. Lab. Geol. Fac. Sci. Lyon 99: 221-230.

Jouanin, C. & Mougin, J.-L. 1979. Order Procellariiformes. Pp. 48–121. In: Mayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W. (Eds). Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 1. Second edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. xviii + 547 pp.

Kain, E. C., Lavers, J. L., Berg, C. J., Raine, A. F. and Bond, A. L. (2016) Plastic ingestion by Newell’s (Puffinus newelli) and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna pacifica) in Hawaii. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. Int. 23: 23951–23958.

King, W. B.; Gould, P. J. 1967. The status of Newell's race of the Manx Shearwater. Living Bird 6th ann.: 163-186.

Mitchell, C.; Ogura, C.; Meadows, D. W.; Kane, A.; Strommer, L.; Fretz, S.; Leonard, D.; McClung, A. 2005. Hawaii's comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy.

Moore, J.L. 1999. Norfolk Island bird notes, 1977 to 1997. Notornis 46: 354-364.

Palma, R.L. 1999. Amendments and additions to the 1982 list of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from birds in New Zealand. Notornis 46: 373-387.

Pitman, R.L. 1986. Atlas of seabird distribution and relative abundance in the eastern tropical Pacific. La Jolla, California: U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center. v + 107 pp.

Podolsky, Richard, Ainley, David G., Spencer, Gregory, Deforest, Leah and Nur, Nadav. (1998). Mortality of Newell’s Shearwaters caused by collisions with urban structures on Kauai. Colonial Waterbirds 21(1): 20-34.

Pyle, R. L. and Pyle, P. (2017). Newell’s Shearwater. The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and Status. B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA. Version 2 (1 January 2017)

Raine, André F., Driskill, Scott, Rothe, Jennifer and Travers, Marc S. (2022). Evaluating the breeding phenology of the endangered ‘a‘o (Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli) on Kaua‘i to better focus conservation actions and management decisions. Bird Conservation International. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270922000387

Raine, A. F., Driskill, S. and Travers, M. (2021) ARC Briefing document. Assessing the reliability of existing Newell’s Shearwater Puffinus newelli and Hawaiian Petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis population estimates. KESRP report. Hanapepe, Kauai, HI, USA: Kaua‘i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project.

Raine, André F., Holmes, Nick D., Travers, Marc, Cooper, Brian A. and Day, Robert H. (2017). Declining population trends of Hawaiian Petrel and Newell's Shearwater on the island of Kaua‘i, Hawaii, USA. The Condor 119(3): 405-415. [Abstract]

Richardson, F. (1955) Reappearance of Newell’s Shearwater in Hawaii. Auk 72: 412.

Scofield, R. Paul. (2009). Procellariiform extinctions in the Holocene: threat processes and wider ecosystem-scale implications, pp. 151-166. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Sincock, J. L. and Swedberg, G. E. (1969) Rediscovery of the nesting grounds of Newell’s Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus newelli), with initial observations. ’Elepaio 29: 105–109.

Spear, L. B.; Ainley, D. G.; Nur, N.; Howell, S. N. G. 1995. Population size and factors affecting at-sea distributions of four endangered Procellariids in the tropical Pacific. Condor 97: 613-638.

Taylor, G.A. 1996. Seabirds found dead on New Zealand beaches in 1994. Notornis 43: 187-196.

Telfer, T. C. (1983) Hawaiian Dark-rumped Petrel and Newell’s Manx Shearwater recovery plan. Washington DC: US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Telfer, T. C. (1986) Newell’s Shearwater nesting colony establishment study on the island of Kauai. Final Report, Statewide Pittman-Robertson Program. Honolulu, HI, USA: Department of Lands and Natural Resources.

Travers, M. S., Driskill, S., Stemen, A., Geelhoed, T., Golden, D. M., Koike, S., Shipley, A. A., Moon, H. E., Anderson, T., Bache, M. and Raine, A. F. (2021) Post-collision impacts, crippling bias, and environmental bias in a study of Newell’s Shearwater and Hawaiian Petrel powerline collisions. ACE 16: art15.

Troy, Jeff R. and Holmes, Nick D. (2008). Reduction in the breeding range of Newell's Shearwaters Puffinus newelli on Kauai, Hawaii: evidence and insights from field surveys and GIS modelling.

Troy, Jeff R. et al. (2017). Habitat suitability modeling for the endangered Hawaiian petrel on Kauai and analysis of predicted habitat overlap with the Newell’s shearwater. Global Ecology and Conservation 12: 131-143.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1983) Recovery plan: Newell’s Shearwater and Dark-rumped Petrel. Portland, OR. 

Wood, K. R.; Bily, P. 2008. Vegetation description of a nesting site for Newell's Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis newelli), Pi'ina'au Stream, East Maui, Hawai'i. 'Elepaio 68(8): 63-66.

Young, L.C., Behnke, J.H., VanderWerf, E.A., Raine, A.F., Mitchell, C., Kohley, C.R., Dalton, M., Mitchell, M., Tonneson, H., DeMotta, D., Wallace, G., Nevins, H., Hall, C.S. & Uyehara, K. (2018) The Nihoku Ecosystem Restoration Project: A case study in predator exclusion fencing, ecosystem restoration, and seabird translocation. Technical Report 198. The Hawai`i-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit & Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i. 83 pp. 

Young, Lindsay C., Kohley, C. Robert et al. (2021). Translocation of Newell’s shearwaters and Hawaiian petrels to create new colonies on Kaua`i, Hawai`i, USA, pp. 98-102. In: Soorae, P. S. (ed.) (2021). Global conservation translocation perspectives: 2021. Case studies from around the globe. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group, Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi and Calgary Zoo, Canada. xiv + 353 pp. 

Lindsay C Young  Eric A VanderWerf  Matthew McKown  Paige Roberts Jeff Schlueter  Adam Vorsino  David Sischo. (2019). Evidence of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels on Oahu, Hawaii. The Condor 121(1): [pagination?]. [Abstract]

 

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