Wednesday, February 28, 2024

FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER

 

Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024

(*518)           FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER            Puffinus carneipes

NEW ZEALAND.                130

Breeds in western Indian Ocean, southern Australia, Lord Howe Island, northern New Zealand, and in Cook Strait. Main New Zealand colonies at Hen and Chickens, Mercury Group, and Trio and Titi Islands. Ranges through coastal waters of North Island occasionally south to Foveaux Strait in the west and Banks Peninsula to the Chathams in the east. Migrates to North Pacific. Breeding November to May.




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