s is a black-billed, blunt-tailed Shearwater like the Short-tailed Shearwater and Great Shearwater. It is also known as muttonbird and tītī in New Zealand.
It breeds on islands of the South Pacific and then flies around the whole Pacific Ocean during the rest of the year.
Classification:
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Puffinus
Species: P. griseus
Photos:
Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) - Pelagic Boat Trip - 2008 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, Baird
Short-tailed Shearwater - Pelagic Boat Trip - 2008 Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, Baird
Sooty Shearwater 0580151 copy
Sooty Shearwater 0580057 copy
Sooty Shearwater: North Carolina Pelagic
Sooty Shearwater, Puffinus griseus, breeds on sub-Antarctic islands but disperses widely. For an interesting report on their marathon migrations, see here. An all dark upper plumage with underp… Read more…
Chris Conard posted a photo:. Sooty Shearwater 9.27.08. Monterey Bay, CA. Read more…
Video:
Discussion:
The Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) - a lesson in indigenous …
One excellent example of cooperation between indigenous landowners and scientists concerns the trans-Pacific migrant the Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus, known in Australia as the Muttonbird … Read more…
Sooty Shearwater 8 N ( they always fly north…proper seawatching now…)the first of the year. Manx Shearwater 15 N including a party of 7 that stopped off to feed close inshore. Arctic… Read more…
august 15, 2008 monterey bay pelagic trip with shearwater journeys
in between, we picked raft after raft of sooty shearwaters out of the fog, with pink-footed shearwaters peaking around the humpback whales – and did the whales ever give us a show! on… Read more…
puffinus griseus length: 17″ width: 40″ weight: 1.7 pounds (780 grams) the sooty shearwater makes hails from the warm nesting ground waters of the southern atlantic and can be seen all the … Read more…
