Editing Calonectris (section)

===Species===
The genus contains four species.<ref name=ioc/>
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common Name !! Distribution<ref name=Hoyo>{{cite book |last1=del Hoyo|first1=Josep |title=All the birds of the world |date=2020 |publisher=Lynx Edicions |location=Barcelona |isbn=978-84-16728-37-4 |page=201}}</ref>
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|[[File:Streaked shearwater sitting.jpg|120px]] ||''Calonectris leucomelas''|| [[Streaked shearwater]] || Pacific Ocean, nesting in Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Forages in the western Pacific between 45°N and 35°S.
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|[[File:Cory's Shearwater from the Crossley ID Guide Britain and Ireland crop.jpg|120px]]  ||''Calonectris borealis''|| [[Cory's shearwater]]|| Breeds on [[Madeira]], the [[Azores]], the [[Canary Islands]] and the [[Berlengas]] islands off the Portuguese coast. Forages in the Atlantic between 60°N and 36°S; also marginally into the western Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean off South Africa.
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|[[File:Scopoli's Shearwater.jpg|120px]]  ||''Calonectris diomedea''|| [[Scopoli's shearwater]] || Breeds on Mediterranean islands. Forages in the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic between 50°N and 36°S; also marginally into the Indian Ocean off South Africa.
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| ||''Calonectris edwardsii'' || [[Cape Verde shearwater]] || Breeds on the [[Cape Verde Islands]]. Forages in the Atlantic between 18°N and 40°S.
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Extinct species, ''[[Calonectris krantzi]]'' from the [[Early Pliocene]] and ''[[Calonectris wingatei]]'' from the [[Middle Pleistocene]], have also been described from [[fossil]]s. ''Calonectris kurodai'', another fossil from the Middle Miocene Calvert Formation of Chesapeake Bay is named after the Japanese ornithologist [[Nagahisa Kuroda]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.2988/09-19.1 |title=A new diminutive species of shearwater of the genus Calonectris (Aves: Procellariidae) from the Middle Miocene Calvert Formation of Chesapeake Bay |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=122 |issue=4 |pages=466–470 |year=2009 |last1=Olson |first1=Storrs L. |s2cid=86663993 }}</ref>