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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- ARDENNA
- creatopus
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Systematics
Systematics History
The Pink-footed Shearwater is closely related to Flesh-footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes) and Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) (18, 19). The authors of that study recommended that Ardenna creatopus be considered conspecific with Ardenna carneipes (19), but the two are still maintained as separate species by most authorities (e.g., 20, 21). Pink-footed Shearwater and other closely related species were split from the genus Puffinus and placed in Ardenna by the North American Classification Committee in 2016 (22).
Geographic Variation
Breeding birds from the Juan Fernández Islands are larger and heavier than those from Isla Mocha, with proportionally stouter bills, thicker legs, and shorter tails (1; see Appearance: Measurements). However, a genetic comparison of birds from those two populations found that they were relatively homogeneous, with little genetic structure (23).
Subspecies
Monotypic.
Related Species
Based on genetic evidence, the species is most closely related to Flesh-footed Shearwater. Both Pink-footed Shearwater and Flesh-footed Shearwater are also closely related to the Great Shearwater; it has been proposed that these three species have a “super-species relationship” (19). Other related species in the Ardenna clade of large shearwaters include Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea), Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris), Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri), and Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica).
Fossil History
Little or no fossil evidence. A fragment tarsometatarsus from central Chile, dating to the Pliocene, had similarities to this species but was larger (24). That fossil record was fragmentary and overlapped in size and morphology with several extant species, so it was not assigned to species (24).