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Pink-footed Shearwater - Fardela Blanca
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Project Description
The Pink-footed Shearwater (Puffinus creatopus), a Chilean endemic seabird listed as Vulnerable by IUCN, breeds on Robinson Crusoe and Santa Clara, both islands of the Juan Fernández Archipelago. Its only other known breeding locality is Isla Mocha, a large island just off the coast of mainland Chile. After breeding, they migrate north, sometimes as far as Alaska, to feed in productive shelf waters within a few hundred meters of the coastline.
Towards the conservation of this special
species, a collaborative group of people from Chile, U.S., Mexico, and
Canda are working together with the Juan
Fernández Islands Conservancy (JFIC). The following ecological
parameters are being investigated:
1) population biology
2) breeding biology and behavior
3) diet and foraging ecology
4) Pacific-wide migration patterns and behavior
5) effects of introduced mammals - predation, habitat degradation, competition
Learn More
Migration Tracking - Español and English
International Capacity Building - Español and English
U.S. Contact
- Dr. Peter
Hodum, Ecologist, JFIC Project Leader
peter [at] oikonos [dot] org
Current Collaborators
Dr. David Hyrenbach, Duke University and University of
Washington
Erin Hagen, University of Washington
Dr. Scott Shaffer, University of California Santa Cruz
Funders
Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)
Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF)
Department of Interior, NOAA Office of International Affairs
Tagging of Pacific Pelagics
National Geographic
Acknowledgements
In addition to the funders and collaborators above, we thank the following people and organizations for their special support:
Dr. Michelle Wainstein
American Bird Conservancy
Wildlife Conservation Society
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