page_title: List of birds of California
section_title: Shearwaters and petrels
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of California / Shearwaters and petrels
caption_attribution_description: English: Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) at the norwegian bird-island Runde
context_page_description: This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee.
  As of June 30, 2020, there are 676 species on the CBRC list. Two of these species are endemic, 13 were introduced by humans, one species has been extirpated, and one was extirpated in the wild but its reintroduction is in progress. Five additional species have been documented but "the CBRC could not reach a consensus as to whether records of these species involved true naturally occurring vagrants or escapes from captivity." One additional species has been added from eBird as a result of the 2020 taxonomic revisions to the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds; it is marked as a review species.
  The following tags note species in each of those categories and one additional category:
  Endemic to California
  (I) Introduced but now established in California
  Extirpated from California
  Reintroduction in progress - not yet established
  California Bird Records Committee Review Species
  Of unknown origin
context_section_description: Order: Procellariiformes   Family: Procellariidae
  The procellariids are the main group of medium-sized "true petrels", characterized by united nostrils with medium septum and a long outer functional primary.
  Northern fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis
  Gray-faced petrel, Pterodroma gouldi (*)
  Kermadec petrel, Pterodroma neglecta (*)
  Murphy's petrel, Pterodroma ultima
  Mottled petrel, Pterodroma inexpectata
  Hawaiian petrel, Pterodroma sandwichensis
  Cook's petrel, Pterodroma cookii
  Stejneger's petrel, Pterodroma longirostris (*)
  Bulwer's petrel, Bulweria bulwerii (*)
  Jouanin's petrel, Bulweria fallax (*)
  White-chinned petrel, Procellaria aequinoctialis (*)
  Parkinson's petrel, Procellaria parkinsoni (*)
  Streaked shearwater, Calonectris leucomelas (*)
  Cory's shearwater, Calonectris diomedea (*)
  Wedge-tailed shearwater, Ardenna pacificus (*)
  Buller's shearwater, Ardenna bulleri
  Short-tailed shearwater, Ardenna tenuirostris
  Sooty shearwater, Ardenna griseus
  Great shearwater, Ardenna gravis (*)
  Pink-footed shearwater, Ardenna creatopus
  Flesh-footed shearwater, Ardenna carneipes
  Manx shearwater, Puffinus puffinus (*)
  Newell's shearwater, Puffinus newelli (*)
  Black-vented shearwater, Puffinus opisthomelas
caption: Northern fulmar
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