WEDGE TAILED SHEARWATER | කූඤ්ඤපෙඳ දියලවකයා

LOCAL NAMES
- Afrikaans Keilstertpylstormvoël
- Chinese 長尾水薙鳥
- Chinese (SIM) 楔尾鹱
- Czech buřňák klínoocasý
- Dutch Wigstaartpijlstormvogel
- English Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- English (HAW) ʻUaʻu kani – Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- English (United States) Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- French Puffin fouquet
- French (French Guiana) Puffin fouquet
- German Keilschwanz-Sturmtaucher
- Greek Μύχος του Ειρηνικού
- Hebrew יסעור רחב-זנב
- Hungarian Változékony vészmadár
- Icelandic Hafskrofa
- Indonesian Penggunting-laut pasifik
- Japanese オナガミズナギドリ
- Lithuanian Pleištauodegė audronaša
- Malayalam ആപ്പുവാലൻ തിരവെട്ടി
- Norwegian kilehalelire
- Persian کبوتر دریایی دم پهن
- Polish burzyk klinosterny
- Portuguese (Portugal) Pardela-rabilonga
- Romanian Ielcovan de Pacific
- Russian Клинохвостый буревестник
- Serbian Klinorepi zovoj
- Slovak víchrovník klinochvostý
- Spanish Pardela del Pacífico
- Spanish (Chile) Fardela del Pacífico
- Spanish (Costa Rica) Pardela Colicuña
- Spanish (Ecuador) Pardela Colicuña
- Spanish (Mexico) Pardela Cola Cuña
- Spanish (Panama) Pardela Colicuña
- Spanish (Peru) Pardela Cola de Cuña
- Spanish (Spain) Pardela del Pacífico
- Swedish kilstjärtslira
- Thai นกจมูกหลอดหางพลั่ว
- Turkish Kama Kuyruklu Yelkovan
- Ukrainian Буревісник клинохвостий
DESCRIPTION
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 ranges throughout the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, roughly between latitudes 35°N and 35°S. It breeds on islands off Japan, on the Islas Revillagigedo, the Hawaiian Islands, the Seychelles, the Northern Mariana Islands, and off Eastern and Western Australia.
