Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Ardenna pacifica
Call and song
Recording 1 · begging call, song
Recording 2
Recording 3
About the Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Large but light-bodied shearwater with rather broad wings and a long, wedge-shaped tail often held closed in a point. Fairly common in warm tropical waters and at times visible from shore. Occurs locally in flocks of hundreds; elsewhere occurs in smaller numbers. Usually seen with feeding flocks of other seabirds. Typical flight is unhurried with easy buoyant glides and stiff wingbeats. Plumage variable: most birds are gray-brown above and whitish below; others are dark brown overall. Note pale scaly edgings to back feathers and slender grayish bill.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 68 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- American Samoa
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Chile
- China
- Christmas Island
- Clipperton Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Colombia
- Cook Islands
- Coral Sea Islands
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Guam
- Guatemala
- High Seas
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Mozambique
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Réunion
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna
- Yemen
