Range of the Sooty shearwater in dark blue and breeding sites in yellow
The sooty shearwater (Ardenna grisea), or tītī, or muttonbird, is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand, it is also known by its Māori name tītī, and as muttonbird, like its relatives the wedge-tailed shearwater (A. pacificus) and the Australian short-tailed shearwater (A. tenuirostris).
^BirdLife International (2019). "Ardenna grisea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22698209A154440143. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22698209A154440143.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
The sootyshearwater (Ardenna grisea), or tītī, or muttonbird, is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand, it is...
shearwaters are long-distance migrants, perhaps most spectacularly sootyshearwaters, which cover distances in excess of 14,000 km (8,700 mi) from their...
Manx shearwater, is also distinctive. The only other large shearwaters in its range are the Cory's Shearwater and the all-dark SootyShearwater. wing...
or Australian muttonbird, in Bass Strait, Tasmania, as well as the sootyshearwater, also known as the tītī or New Zealand muttonbird, on several small...
observe. Wildlife in the Drake Passage includes the following species: Sootyshearwater White-chinned petrel Southern giant petrel Northern giant-petrel Black-browed...
although the genus Puffinus (which includes today's Manx shearwater and sootyshearwater) might date back to the Oligocene. Within the Charadriiformes...
non-breeding season. Southern species of shearwater such as the sootyshearwater and short-tailed shearwater, breeding on islands off Australia, New Zealand...
spectacularly the sooty and short-tailed shearwaters, which perform migrations of 14,000 km or more each year. Puffinus shearwaters come to islands and...
Stewart Island weka (G. a. scotti) have been observed preying on sootyshearwater (Puffinus griseus) eggs and chicks. Plant foods include leaves, grass...
New Zealand. Short-tailed shearwater, nesting in south-eastern Australia, particularly in the Furneaux Islands Sootyshearwater, nesting mainly in New Zealand...
of New Zealand; ranges across the Pacific Ocean Puffinus griseus, sootyshearwater breeds on southeastern Australia, New Zealand, and southern South America;...
island. Up to 7,000 pairs of wedge-tailed shearwaters and short-tailed shearwaters breed on the island. The sooty oystercatcher is listed as a threatened...
seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still...
Recorded breeding seabird species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, sootyshearwater, fairy prion, common diving-petrel, silver gull and black-faced...
There are even more species of birds, including huge colonies of sootyshearwater and other seabirds, on The Snares and the other smaller islands offshore...
recovery plan in the early 1980s. The island still hosts the largest sootyshearwater (Puffinus griseus) colony in the Chathams group. Islands portal Desert...
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