Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus [JF Gmelin, 1789] |
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Order:
Procellariiformes
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Family: Procellariidae |
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BTO Codes:
OT, SOOSH
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EURING No: 430 | |
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Number in Britain:
Unavailable
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Conservation Status:
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Status in UK:
(A) Passage Visitor
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Subspecies:
Monotypic
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Length:
46 cm
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Wingspan: 102 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 820 g
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Scientific name from:
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English: puffin (from puff+ing) and L.: griseus=grey |
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World Distribution:
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BREEDS: is off s Australasia & s South America, RANGES: widely in Pacific & Atlantic |
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Habitat:
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Pelagic, breeds in island burrows |
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Diet:
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Mostly small fish and squid from surface or below |
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TitBit:
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Shearwaters have a good sense of smell, and locate food patches from the scent given off by plankton when they are being eaten by krill (a chemical known as DMS, the scent of rotting seaweed). |
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Other Names |
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| Gaelic: Fachach-dubh | Welsh: Aderyn-Drycin Du |
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Danish:
Sodfarvet skrĺpe
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Dutch: Grauwe pijlstormvogel |
| Finnish: Nokiliitäjä | French: Puffin fuligineux |
| German: Dunkelsturmtaucher | Hungarian: Szürke vészmadár |
| Icelandic: Gráskrofa |
Irish:
Cánóg Dhorcha
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| Italian: Berta grigia | Norwegian: Grĺlire |
| Polish: Burzyk szary | Portuguese: Pardela-preta |
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Spanish:
Pardela sombría
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Swedish: Grĺlira |
| Local Names:Muttonbird | |
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For More Information... |
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Books and Monographs:
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| Brooke, M. de L. 2004 Albatrosses and petrels across the world Oxford University Press, Oxford [598.44 BRO] | |
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Wikipedia entry
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BirdLife species page
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Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides
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Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
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