Puffinus baroli; Print; The Barolo shearwater (Puffinus baroli); also known as the North Atlantic little shearwater or Macaronesian shearwater; is a small shearwater which breeds in the Azores and Canaries of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. Puffinus is a New Latin loanword based on the English "puffin" and its variants; such as poffin; pophyn and puffing; that referred to the cured carcass of the fat nestling of the Manx shearwater; a former delicacy. The specific baroli refers to Carlo Tencredi Falletti; marquis of Barolo.; 1842-1848