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Flesh-footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes) Alternate name(s): "Fleshy-footed Shearwater", "Pale-footed Shearwater", "Lord Howe Island Muttonbird" Aboriginal name(s): "borroot" (S WA) Size: 40-45 cm; wing span 1.0-1.5 m Weight: 560-680 g

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Flesh-footed Shearwaters are medium-size seabirds with dark-brown plumage. The tips of their primaries are a bit lighter in colour than the rest of the plumage, the bill is greyish with a black top and tip, the legs and feet give the species its name with their fleshy colour. The eyes are black.

Taxonomy, classification See Flesh-footed Shearwater at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Flesh-footed Shearwater is available HERE . For much of the year Flesh-footed Shearwaters populate the tropical and subtropical Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, but they are also found farther North along the American West coast, up to Alaska. They breed on islands, including Lord Howe Island, some off-shore off SA and off WA, and northern New Zealand. Flesh-footed Shearwaters can reach the coastal waters around the Australian continent anywhere roughly South of the tropic of Capricorn, from Fraser Island, QLD, in the East to Exmouth, WA, in the West (but only rarely in the South-east, between the Hunter River, NSW, and the VIC/SA border, including Tasmania). They can be found on many off-shore islands. Flesh-footed Shearwaters spend much time out on the open seas and in coastal waters. They breed on oceanic and some off-shore islands.

Sightings Click here for sighting information B. Hensen reports spotting Flesh-footed Shearwaters around Ned's Beach, Lord Howe Island, in November 2014. M. Eaton reports finding Flesh-footed Shearwaters 22 NM off Southport, Gold Coast, QLD, in April 2018.

Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

Lateral view of a Flesh-footed Shearwater on its way to its nest burrow at dusk (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Lord Howe Island, November 2014]

Lateral view of a Flesh-footed Shearwater on water (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[22 NM off Southport, Gold Coast, QLD, April 2018]

Flesh-footed Shearwaters approaching the coastline of Lord Howe Island in the afternoon (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Off Ned's Beach, Lord Howe Island, November 2014]

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