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MarineCavity nestLarge · 744 g
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Male pink-footed shearwaters on average are found to be larger than females. However, morphological features such as bill size, tail length, head length, and average body size are found to be linked not only to sex, but to breeding locality. These difference may represent adaptations to environmental conditions such as food availability, prey type/mobility and wind speed. In procellariiformes, larger wing area is generally associated with feeding on highly mobile prey, lower wind speeds, and less abundant more dispersed food sources.
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When to see the Pink-footed Shearwater
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Pink-footed Shearwater
The map shades 11 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in New Zealand, Australia.
About the Pink-footed Shearwater
The pink-footed shearwater is a species of seabird. The bird is 48 cm (19 in) in length, with a 109 cm (43 in) wingspan. It is polymorphic, having both darker- and lighter-phase populations. Together with the equally light-billed flesh-footed shearwater, it forms the Hemipuffinus group, a superspecies that may or may not have an Atlantic relative in the great shearwater. These are large shearwaters which are among those that could be separated in the genus Ardenna.
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Easily confused with
Wedge-tailed ShearwaterArdenna pacificaThe wedge-tailed shearwater is the largest of the tropical shearwaters.
Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisThis shearwater is 43–51 cm (16.9–20.1 in) in length with a 105–122 cm (3.5–4.0 ft) wingspan.
Short-tailed ShearwaterArdenna tenuirostrisThe short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater, also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird both in early Australia and in New Zealand, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested.
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