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Short-tailed Shearwater
Ardenna tenuirostris (Short-tailed Shearwater · ハシボソミズナギドリ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its 550 g weight is slightly heavier than a 500 mL bottle of water.
- 💡 In Tasmania, about 200,000 chicks are harvested commercially each year as "muttonbirds" (NZ Birds Online).
- 💡 Flying about 15,000 km in a single trip is equivalent to traveling between Seoul and Busan (about 400 km by road) roughly 37 times.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Short-tailed Shearwater is a seabird that breeds in southeastern Australia and migrates annually to the North Pacific. In Tasmania, it is also known as the "muttonbird."
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It is a medium-sized seabird measuring about 42 cm in length and weighing about 550 g.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It catches fish by diving to depths of about 10 m or snatching prey at the surface. It lays a single egg in a burrow about 1 m long, incubates it for about 53 days, and flies roughly 15,000 km on a single migration leg.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2018) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22698216/132635686
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 132635686
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000528915 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000528915
- • wikidata.org — Q27074605
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Puffinus tenuirostris 2.jpg
- • nzbirdsonline.org.nz — short-tailed-shearwater
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Edwin Price · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Ardenna creatopus)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.