Birds of Costa Rica


Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus) Vulnerable Monterey, California, United States
Photograph by Alan Schmierer Image has been placed in the Public Domain.


Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) Near Threatened Cape Pillar, Tasmania, Australia Back of wings sooty brown.
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) Kona, Hawaii, United States Light morph.
Photograph by Alan Schmierer Image has been placed in the Public Domain.

All brown except for the white morph which is all white underneath. Note tail with longer feathers in the center.

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