This section is from the book "The Bird Book", by Chester A. Reed. Also available from Amazon: The Bird Book.
Range. - Middle Atlantic, ranging north in late summer to Long Island.
This bird, having a length of but twelve inches, is the smallest of the Shearwaters found along our coasts. Large colonies of them breed on some of the small islands and keys of the West Indies and Bahamas, and not so commonly in the Bermudas. Their eggs, which are pure white, are deposited at the end of burrows dug by the birds. Size of egg 2. x 1.35. Their nesting season commences about the latter part of March and continues through April and May. After the young are able to fly, like other members of the family, the birds become ocean wanderers and stray north to southern New England. Data. - Bahamas, April 13, 1891. Single egg laid at the end of a burrow about two feet in length. Collector, D. P. Ingraham.
Egg of Audubon's Shearwater - White.
Audubon's Shearwater.
This is an Australian and New Zealand species that has accidentally strayed to the shores of Nova Scotia.
Pink-footed Shearwater. Black-vented Shearwater. Townseno's Shearwater.
 
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