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Sooty Shearwater
Ardenna grisea(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Also known asTītī
Near ThreatenedNative
- Order
- PROCELLARIIFORMES
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Ardenna
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The sooty shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand, it is also known by its Māori name tītī, and is harvested by Māori people for muttonbird, like its relatives the wedge-tailed shearwater and the Australian short-tailed shearwater.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Worldwide : south temperate and subantarctic islands from south Chile and Falklands to south Australia and Tasmania, Macquarie (far south-east of Australia) and outlying islands of New Zealand
- Non-breeding range
- North to North Atlantic to Greenland and north-west Europe, and north Pacific to Gulf of Alaska and west USA
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
5 photos
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