Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Flesh-footed Shearwater at nest hole, Lord Howe Island, December 2011

Flesh-footed Shearwater at nest hole, Lord Howe Island, December 2011

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CAVS: 0072

Species Ardenna carneipes (Gould, 1844)

Flesh-footed Shearwater, Big Mutton-bird, Flesh-footed Petrel, Fleshy-footed Petrel, Fleshy-footed Shearwater, Mutton-bird

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Temperate to tropical, breeds on islands off southern WA, SA and Lord Howe Island; trans equatorial migrant to northern Indian and Pacific Oceans


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022 PROCELLARIIFORMES 02-Nov-2022 MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020 PROCELLARIIFORMES 22-Apr-2014 MODIFIED Dr Wayne Longmore
01-May-2014 MODIFIED