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title: "Wigstaartpijlstormvogel"
description: "Ardenna pacifica — Vogels. The wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) (Uau Kani or Koto in Hawaiian) is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/wedge-tailed-shearwater
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Wigstaartpijlstormvogel

> Ardenna pacifica — Vogels. The wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) (Uau Kani or Koto in Hawaiian) is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.

- Scientific name: *Ardenna pacifica*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 4209
- Wikidata: [Q27074601](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27074601)
- iNaturalist taxon: [475125](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/475125)

## Names

- en: Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- de: Keilschwanz-Sturmtaucher
- es: Pardela cola cuña
- fr: Puffin fouquet
- it: Berta cuneata
- nl: Wigstaartpijlstormvogel
- pt: Pardela-rabilonga
- pl: Burzyk klinosterny

## Countries with the most observations

US (1759), AU (417), MX (371), NC (97), SC (31), UM (30), RE (18), MU (17), NF (16), MP (12), AS (9), CR (8)

## Summary

The wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) (Uau Kani or Koto in Hawaiian) 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 is found throughout the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, roughly between latitudes 35°N and 35°S. It breeds on the islands off Japan, on the Islas Revillagigedo, the Hawaiian Islands, the Seychelles, the Northern Mariana Islands, and off Eastern and Western Australia.
Its Hawaiian name "Uau Kani" reflects…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge-tailed_shearwater

## Photo

![Wigstaartpijlstormvogel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/wedge-tailed-shearwater/medium.jpg)

Photo: Damien Wallace · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/364977873

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/wedge-tailed-shearwater?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).