Fossils have also been found in the Figueira Brava cave archaeological site on the western coast of Portugal.

[2] The specific epithet honours Mrs Jean Hole, who collected fossil material of the species on the Jandia Peninsula of Fuerteventura.

[1] It was intermediate in size between the Manx and Cory's shearwaters.

Its breeding colonies were in dune fields, in contrast to those of the smaller and sympatric lava shearwater which bred in lava fields.

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