Sooty Shearwater

The Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels) in the order Procellariiformes.

Range: breeds southeastern Australia (including Macquarie Island), New Zealand including associated subantarctic island groups, far southern South America (including the Falkland Islands), and Tristan da Cunha (south Atlantic Ocean); winters northward in North Atlantic to Greenland and northwestern Europe, and in northern Pacific to Gulf of Alaska and western USARange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name

Ardenna grisea

Family

Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels)

Order

Procellariiformes

IUCN Red List

NTNear Threatened

English (US)

Sooty Shearwater

Described by

(Gmelin, JF, 1789)