Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus
Chilean name: Fardela negra
The Sooty Shearwater breeds in southern Chile and on islands off Australia and New Zealand.
Sooty shearwater Puffinus griseus
Identification Tips:
Length: 16 inches Wingspan: 43 inches
Sexes similar
Pelagic bird only coming ashore to breed
Large shearwater
Dark bill with tube on top
Dark gray head, body and feet ...
Sooty Shearwater
Puffinus griseus
Photo by Glen Tepke and used with his permission. All photos remain the property of the photographer.
Range Distribution Although the Sooty Shearwater is at times the most abundant bird off the California coast, it nests only in Australia, New Zealand, and southern South America.
Sooty Shearwater
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin)
Status Common summer visitant. Sooty Shearwaters are regular in offshore waters from late May to September, peak numbers being reached in August.
The sooty shearwater is found in oceans throughout the world but its only known breeding areas are in the Southern Hemisphere.
The sooty shearwater is a seabird, that is smaller than a herring gull. It is a large shearwater, with dark brown body and wings and long wings. Its bill is dark and when seen close up, there is a pale band along the underneath of the wings.
Grey Shearwater, Gray Shearwater, Atlantic Sooty Shearwater (stricklandi = grisea), Sooty, Sooties, Sombre Petrel, Sombre Shearwater, Dark-bodied Shearwater, Spectral Shearwater, Muttonbird, New Zealand Mutton-bird, Black Hagdon, Black Hag ...
Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus. Occasional in Gulf Coast region. Mostly pelagic. Found in the Gulf.
Audubon’s Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri. Occasional in Gulf Coast region. Pelagic. Found in the Gulf.
Sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus)
Townsend's shearwater (Puffinus auricularis)
Yelkouan shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan)
Newell's shearwater (Puffinus newelli)
Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) ...
Sooty Shearwater
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Northern Shoveler
Summer Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Red-necked Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
The Greater and Sooty Shearwaters can occur on any trip. The Pomarine Jaeger is most likely May and early June and September trips.
Some species undertake regular trans-equatorial migrations, such as the Sooty Shearwater which annually migrates from its breeding grounds in New Zealand and Chile to the North Pacific off Japan, Alaska and California, an annual round trip of 64, ...
Along with these three were Two further species, also both familiar to North American birders, Sooty Shearwaters and Short-tailed Shearwaters.
Many are long-distance migrants, perhaps most spectacularly Sooty Shearwaters, which cover distances in excess of 14, ...
Puffinus griseus - Sooty Shearwater
Puffinus assimilis - Little Shearwater
Puffinus gravis - Great Shearwater
Puffinus tenuirostris - Short-tailed Shearwater
Hydrobatidae - Petrels
Oceanodroma
Oceanodroma leucorrhoa - Storm-Petrel ...
(37.5-62.5 cm) long, dark above and light below—except for the grayish-bellied sooty shearwater of the Southern Hemisphere. Most common in the North Atlantic are the greater shearwater and Cory's shearwater.
Species in this family:
Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri)
Black-capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata)
Cory's Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) ...
Puffinus griseus Sooty shearwater
Puffinus heinrothi Heinroth's shearwater
Puffinus huttoni Hutton's shearwater
Puffinus lherminieri Audubon's shearwater
Puffinus persicus Persian shearwater
Puffinus puffinus Manx shearwater ...
 See also: Shearwater, Petrel, Seabird, Gull, Gannet
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