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Genus: Ardenna (7 species)

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


Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) Vulnerable Range: PO: Poor Knights Is. (off ne North I., New Zealand) California, United States Note shades of white, black, grey and brown on the back, with white underwings with black border.
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Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri) Vulnerable Range: PO: Poor Knights Is. (off ne North I., New Zealand) California,
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Flesh-footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes) Near Threatened Range: PO, IO: islets off St. Paul (c Indian Ocean), sw, s Australia, Lord Howe I. (e of Australia), North I. and Cook Strait (New Zealand) Ball's Pyramid, NSW, Australia
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Found along west coast of North America.


Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus) Vulnerable Range: PO: e South Pacific Ocean islands off Chile: Santa Clara and Morro Vinilla (sw of Robinson Crusoe), Robinson Crusoe (=Mas a Tierra; Juan Fernandez Is., far w of c Chile) and Isla Mocha (just w of sc Chile) Monterey, California, United States
Photograph by Alan Schmierer Image has been placed in the Public Domain.


Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) Range: AO: Kidney I. (Falkland Is.), Nightingale, Inaccessible and Gough (Tristan da Cunha group; sc Atlantic Ocean) South Africa
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Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) Range: AO: Kidney I. (Falkland Is.), Nightingale, Inaccessible and Gough (Tristan da Cunha group; sc Atlantic Ocean) East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia Note grey on belly.
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Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) Near Threatened Range: Worldwide: s temperate and subantarctic islands from s Chile and Falklands to s Australia and Tasmania, Macquarie (far se of Australia) and outlying islands of New Zealand Cape Pillar, Tasmania, Australia Back of wings sooty brown.
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Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) Range: PO, IO: islets of tropical South Indian Ocean: Amirantes and Inner Is. (c, ne Seychelles) and Mascarenes (Malagasy region), Chagos and Cocos (Keeling) (se Indian Ocean), New Guinea region, and w Australia; islets of subtropical and tropical Pacific Ocean: e Austr Kona, Hawaii, United States Light morph.
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All brown except for the white morph which is all white underneath. Note tail with longer feathers in the center.


Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) Range: PO: islets off s, se Australia, Bass Strait and Tasmania (se Australia) East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia
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Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) Range: PO: islets off s, se Australia, Bass Strait and Tasmania (se Australia) Australia
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