Sooty Shearwater

Ardenna grisea (Gmelin, JF, 1789)

Sooty Shearwater, Ardenna grisea, breeds on temperate and subantarctic islands across the world, from southern Chile and the Falklands to southern Australia, Tasmania, Macquarie and outlying New Zealand islands. Outside the breeding season it ranges north to the North Atlantic, reaching Greenland and north-west Europe, and into the North Pacific as far as the Gulf of Alaska and the western USA. It is a petrel in the family Procellariidae, and was first described by Gmelin in 1789. In New Zealand it is also called tītī.

Order

Procellariiformes

Family

Procellariidae — Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels

Breeding range

Worldwide : s temperate and subantarctic islands from s Chile and Falklands to s Australia and Tasmania, Macquarie (far se of Australia) and outlying islands of New Zealand

Nonbreeding range

n to North Atlantic to Greenland and nw Europe, and n Pacific to Gulf of Alaska and w USA