Flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)

The flesh-footed shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater. Its plumage is black. It has pale pinkish feet, and a pale bill with a distinct black tip. Together with the equally light-billed pink-footed shearwater, it forms the ''Hemipuffinus'' group, a superspecies which may or may not have an Atlantic relative in the great shearwater. These are large shearwaters which are among those that have been separated in the genus ''Ardenna''.

It breeds in colonies, and has two main breeding areas:.. more