Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Sooty Shearwater

Ardenna grisea

The Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) is a 787 g ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It migrates.

Family

Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Order

Procellariiformes

Weight

787 g

Habitat

Marine

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

44

Recorded in United States, New Zealand, Chile, Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Denmark, Argentina, South Africa, Falkland Is., Norway, Peru, Ireland, Portugal, France, Mexico, Belgium, Antarctica, Ecuador, Netherlands, Israel, Faeroe Islands, Japan, Iceland, BM, Costa Rica, Senegal, Russia, S. Geo. and the Is., Namibia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Brazil, Germany, Greenland, Panama, United Arab Emirates, Mauritania, Fr. Polynesia, Uruguay, GP, Morocco, Colombia.

Where to see it: At sea (High seas or unknown); Cape Pembroke (Falkland Islands / Malvinas); Drake Passage (High seas or unknown); Drake Passage (Antarctic waters) (Antarctica); Auto selected (High seas or unknown).

Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist