Hello! I am currently working with a lot of seabirds including wedge-tailed shearwaters, and I tried searching but I wasn't able to find any shearwaters. Do you have any shearwaters to share?
Wedge-tailed is actually the only species of Shearwater that I have identified in the wild myself (if any of y'all have ever been to the Kilauea Point Lighthouse on Kauaii).
Here's 5 species for you...
Great Shearwater (Puffinus gravis), family Procellariidae, order Procelariiformes, Gulf Stream off of Hatteras, NC, USA
photograph by Patrick Coin
Great - Off the coast of Portugal
photograph by Charles J. Sharp
Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris borealis), family Procellariidae, order Procelariiformes, North Atlantic
photograph by Richard Crossley
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), family Procellariidae, order Procelariiformes, off the coast of Chile
photograph by Kirk Zufelt
Sargasso Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri), family Procellariidae, order Procelariiformes, off the coast of NC, USA
photograph by Jay McGowan
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica), family Procellariidae, order Procelariiformes, off the coast of QLD, Australia
photograph by Michael Daley
Wedge-tailed, NW Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii
photograph by Cameron Rutt