Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Dutch | Chileense Grote Pijlstormvogel |
English | Pink-footed Shearwater |
English (United States) | Pink-footed Shearwater |
French | Puffin à pieds roses |
French (French Guiana) | Puffin à pieds roses |
German | Rosafuß-Sturmtaucher |
Hebrew | יסעור ורוד-רגל |
Icelandic | Markarskrofa |
Japanese | シロハラアカアシミズナギドリ |
Norwegian | chilelire |
Polish | burzyk różowonogi |
Russian | Розовоногий буревестник |
Serbian | Sivi svetlonogi zovoj |
Slovak | víchrovník ružovonohý |
Spanish | Pardela Patirrosa |
Spanish (Argentina) | Pardela Patas Rosas |
Spanish (Chile) | Fardela blanca |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | Pardela Blanca Común |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Pardela Patirrosada |
Spanish (Mexico) | Pardela Patas Rosadas |
Spanish (Panama) | Pardela Patirrosada |
Spanish (Peru) | Pardela de Pata Rosada |
Spanish (Spain) | Pardela patirrosa |
Swedish | rosanäbbad lira |
Turkish | Şili Yelkovanı |
Ukrainian | Буревісник рожевоногий |
Revision Notes
Ryan D. Carle, Valentina Colodro, Jonathan Felis, Joshua Adams, and Peter J. Hodum revised the account. Peter Pyle contributed to the Appearance page. David Ainley, Sarah Schoen, Tom Kimball, and Ken Morgan reviewed the account. Arnau Bonan Barfull and Peter Pyle curated the media. Vicens Vila-Coury generated the distribution map. Qwahn Kent managed the references.
Ardenna creatopus (Coues, 1864)
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Distribution
Introduction
The Pink-footed Shearwater occurs almost exclusively in the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it migrates between the breeding range in the central and southern Humboldt Current System, and the nonbreeding range in the northern Humboldt and California Current Systems (8, 25, 26, 27, 16). Breeds only on islands off the coast of central Chile (8).
Breeding Range
Known to nest on three islands in Chile: Isla Mocha, Isla Robinson Crusoe (also known as Más a Tierra), and Isla Santa Clara (8). Isla Mocha (38.36°S, 73.92°W; surface area 47.82 km2) is located at the shelf break, 35 km offshore of south-central Chile. Isla Robinson Crusoe (33.67°S, 78.84°W; surface area 52 km2) and Isla Santa Clara (33.70°S, 78.94°W; surface area 2.21 km2) are part of the oceanic Juan Fernández Islands, located 670 km west of the South American continent (8, 4). Several islands in south-central Chile with potential nesting habitat have not been thoroughly searched for nesting Pink-footed Shearwater, including Isla Guafo (43.60°S, 74.70°W), a large island south of Chiloé.
During the breeding period, birds primarily forage in waters over the narrow continental shelf, within 25 km of shore (28, 29; see Habitat in Breeding Range). Birds from the Juan Fernández Islands also forage in deeper waters around the archipelago (Oikonos, unpublished data). See Movements and Migration: Movement for details on at-sea habitat during breeding period.
Nonbreeding Range
During the nonbreeding period (austral winter), occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean less than 1,000 km from mainland coasts in waters from northern Chile to the northern Gulf of Alaska (16, 6). Core nonbreeding period areas include continental shelf (< 200 m depth) and slope (200–1000 m depth) waters off Peru from Trujillo to Lima, central Baja California, Mexico, and the west coast of North America from southern California, United States to northern Vancouver Island, Canada (27, 16). Some individuals also visit the Gulf of California, Mexico (30, 16).
Extralimital Records
Recorded as a vagrant west to Hawai‘i, Kiribati (Line Islands), New Zealand, and Australia (31, 4). There have been more records in New Zealand as data sources such as eBird have expanded, suggesting it may occur more regularly there than previously thought (27, 6). There is a single Atlantic Ocean record from Chubut Province, Argentina, in May 1981 (32).
Historical Changes to the Distribution
Based on interviews with elderly residents, the species may have formerly nested on Isla Santa Maria, Chile (37.02°S, 73.52°W; Oikonos unpublished data). However, a search of the main island in 2017 indicated it is probably extirpated there due to extensive human impacts (Oikonos, unpublished data). One islet off the north coast of Isla Santa Maria, called Islote Farallón ( ) is uninhabited by humans. This islet was not searched and could have suitable habitat.
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