page_title: Scopoli's shearwater
section_title: Range
hierarchical_section_title: Scopoli's shearwater / Range
caption_attribution_description: English: Location taken: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Names: Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli, 1769), Atlantise tormilind, Baldriga cendrosa, Berta maggiore, Boz yelkovan, Buřňák šedý, Burzyk żółtodzioby, Calonectris diomedea, Cape Verde Shearwater, cinereous shearwater, Cory s Shearwater, Cory&#39;s Shearwater, Cory's Shearwater, Corys Shearwater, Flavbeka pufino, Gabia arre, Geelbekpylstormvoël, Gelbschnabel Sturmtaucher, Gelbschnabel-Sturmtaucher, Gelbschnabelsturmtaucher, Gulnäbbad lira, Gulnebblire, Keltanokkaliitäjä, Kuhls Pijlstormvogel, Kuls skråpe, Mediterrán vészmadár, Nevgulur skrápur, North Atlantic shearwater, northern shearwater, Océanite frégate, Paíño pechialbo, Pardela cenicienta, Pardela cincenta, Pardela de bico amarelo,&lt;SP&gt;Pardela de Cory, Petrell carablanc, Puffin Cendr, Puffin cendrÃ©, puffin cendrÃ©e, Puffin cendré, puffin cendrée, Puffin du Cap-Vert *, Scopoli's Shearwater, Tort glas, Välimerenliitäjä, Veliki zovoj, Жълтоклюн буревестник, Средиземноморский буревестник, Строкатий атлантичний буревісник, יסעור גדול, جلم الماء الكبير, オニミズナギド Classification: Animalia &gt; Chordata &gt; Av
context_page_description: Scopoli's shearwater is a bird in the family Procellariidae currently considered conspecific with Cory's shearwater. It has no subspecies. The genus name Calonectris comes from Ancient Greek kalos, "good" and nectris, "swimmer". The specific diomedea refers to Diomedes, the mythical king. His wife was serially unfaithful while he fought at Troy, so he left to found a city in Italy. After his death, his distraught friends were turned into white seabirds. The English name is for Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli who first described the species.
context_section_description: Calonectris diomedea breeds across the Mediterranean; on Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera, Cabrera, Conillera and Dragonera in the Balearics; on the Îles d'Hyères in France; on Elba, small islands off Sardinia and Sicily, Pantelleria and Lampedusa in Italy; In Malta; on coastal Croatian islands and parts of the mainland; on Kythira, Kolpos and the Cyclades in Greece.
  The majority of the population spends the non-breeding season in the Atlantic, including areas off the west coast of Africa and east coast of Brazil, as well as on the Greek islands.
caption: Skull of a Scopoli's shearwater
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