#0944 · 🐦 birds

Great Shearwater

🇳🇱 Grote Pijlstormvogel ·Ardenna gravis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Fyn Kynd · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Artie Kopelman · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © docprt · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Lawrence Haselmaier · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Joaquim Maceira Muchaxo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Patrick Coin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Luke Foster · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Tero Linjama · CC0

what is it?

The great shearwater ( Ardenna gravis ; formerly Puffinus gravis ) is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. Ardenna was first used to refer to a seabird by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, and gravis is Latin for "heavy".

base stats

NL sightings 3iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,757iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).