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title: "Habla Español?  Three satellite-tracked Pink-footed Shearwaters from Chile approach the Canadian border"
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# Habla Español?  Three satellite-tracked Pink-footed Shearwaters from Chile approach the Canadian border

The [Vulnerable](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3931) Pink-footed Shearwater *Puffinus creatopus* is a recently listed ACAP species.  A breeding endemic to Chile it migrates to the northern hemisphere – as far as Canadian waters - after breeding.  Over recent years the species’ trans-equatorial migration route along the eastern Pacific seaboard has been studied by use of transmitters.

 Solar-powered satellite transmitters were again placed on Pink-footed Shearwaters in April this year on [Isla Mocha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_Island) in Chile.  Currently, there are three birds with transmitters near the USA-Canada border in Washington State, three off southern California, two in Baja, Mexico, and two off Peru (click here for [updates](http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1007)).

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Pink_footed/Pink_foot_map.jpg)

 Pink-footed Shearwater migration routes covered to date

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Pink_footed/Pink-footed Shearwater 6 Peter Hodum s.jpg)

 Pink-footed Shearwater, photograph by Peter Hodum

 [Click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2178-hola-mexico-satellite-tracked-pink-footed-shearwaters-migrate-from-chile-to-the-northern-hemisphere) for an earlier posting on the shearwater's migration.

 The tracking study is a project of the [U.S. Geological Survey](https://www.facebook.com/USGeologicalSurvey) and [Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge](http://oikonos.org/).

 **Selected Literature:**

 Commission for Environmental Cooperation 2005.  [North American Conservation Action Plan: Pink-footed Shearwater](http://www.cec.org/Storage/59/5164_NACAP-Pink-footed-Shearwater_en.pdf).  Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.  vii + 49 pp.

 Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada 2004.  [COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Pink-footed Shearwater](http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/CW69-14-400-2004E.pdf).  Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.  vii + 22 pp.

 Environment Canada, 2008.  [Recovery Strategy for the Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) and the Pink-footed Shearwater (Puffinus creatopus) in Canada](http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/plans/rs_short_tailed_albatross_and_pink_footed_shearwater_final_0408_e.pdf).  Ottawa: Environment Canada.  vii + 44 pp.

 Hinojosa, S.A. & Hodum, P.J. 2008.  Plan nacional para la conservación de la fardela de vientre blanco *Puffinus creatopus* Coues, 1864 en Chile.  Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF) and Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CONAMA), Chile.  34 pp.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 24 August 2015*