Identification of a shearwater specimen in a Danish museum
The Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen houses a specimen of Puffinus shearwater labelled Barolo Shearwater P. baroli, collected Skagerrak, 18th September 1912. Our study identified with confidence the Skagerrak specimen as Audubon's Shearwater P. lherminieri. The study involved DNA analysis, measurements and assessment of plumage aspect. If provenance is accepted, then the specimen represents the first and only record to date of Audubon's Shearwater in the Western Palearctic.