Flesh-footed Shearwater

Ardenna carneipes (Gould, 1844)

Flesh-footed Shearwater, Ardenna carneipes, breeds on islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans, including south-west and southern Australia, Lord Howe Island, North Island and Cook Strait in New Zealand, and islets off St Paul in the central Indian Ocean. It is a shearwater of the family Procellariidae and is found away from breeding sites across the Arabian Sea, the Malagasy region, the north Pacific east of Japan, and from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Gulf of Alaska and the west coast of the USA, where it is rare. It is marked by black plumage, pale pinkish feet and a pale bill with a black tip.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean: islets off St. Paul (c Indian Ocean), sw, s Australia, Lord Howe I. (e of Australia), North I. and Cook Strait (New Zealand)

Nonbreeding range

to Arabian Sea, e Malagasy region, n Pacific e of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk to Gulf of Alaska and w USA coast (rare)