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.