Birds of Ecuador

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Genus: Ardenna (4 species, 7 worldwide)

Ardenna is a genus of shearwater, which are large (around 40 cm.) pelagic diving birds.


Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) Vulnerable California, United States Note shades of white, black, grey and brown on the back, with white underwings with black border.
Photograph by Julio Mulero Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.


Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) Vulnerable California,
Photograph by Julio Mulero Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.


Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) Vulnerable California, United States Note shades of white, black, grey and brown on the back, with white underwings with black border.
Photograph by Julio Mulero Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.


Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) Vulnerable California,
Photograph by Julio Mulero Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.


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) Rare/Accidental 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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