Pink-footed Shearwater
Ardenna creatopus(Coues, E, 1864)
English (US) Pink-footed Shearwater
The Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: breeds Juan Fernández and Mocha islands off central Chile; ranges inshore and coastal eastern Pacific Ocean waters northward to Gulf of Alaska and southward to southern ChileRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ardenna creatopus
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Pink-footed Shearwater
- Described by
- (Coues, E, 1864)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Puffinus creatopus
- Described by
- (Coues, E, 1864)
- Type locality
- San Nicolas Island, California.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 16 p.131
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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