#0962 · 🐦 birds

Sooty Shearwater

🇳🇱 Grauwe Pijlstormvogel ·Ardenna grisea

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Oscar Thomas · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Pablo Caceres Contreras · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The sooty shearwater ( Ardenna grisea ) is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. Ardenna was first used to refer to a seabird by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, and grisea is medieval Latin for "grey".

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,706iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

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).