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Wedge-tailed shearwater
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a muttonbird, like the sooty shearwater of New Zealand and the short-tailed shearwater of Australia. It is found throughout the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, roughly between latitudes 35°N and 35°S. It breeds on the islands off Japan, on the Islas Revillagigedo, the Hawaiian Islands, the Seychelles, the Northern Mariana Islands, and off Eastern and Western Australia.
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Wedge-tailed shearwater | |
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Pair "singing", Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Procellariiformes |
Family: | Procellariidae |
Genus: | Ardenna |
Species: | A. pacifica |
Binomial name | |
Ardenna pacifica (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | |
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Nonbreeding Breeding | |
Synonyms | |
Procellaria pacifica (protonym) Puffinus pacificus |
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