#1196 · 🐦 birds

Scopoli's Shearwater

🇳🇱 Scopoli's Pijlstormvogel ·Calonectris diomedea

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
2. © Nick Moore · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nick Moore · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Pep Cantó · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © simben · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © David Barros Cardona · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Scopoli's shearwater ( Calonectris diomedea ) is a bird in the Procellariidae family formerly considered conspecific with Cory's shearwater ( Calonectris borealis ). It has no subspecies. The genus name Calonectris comes from Ancient Greek kalos , "good" and nectris , "swimmer". The specific diomedea refers to Diomedes, the mythical king. His wife was serially unfaithful while he fought at Troy, so he left to found a city in Italy. After his death, his distraught friends were turned into white seabirds. The...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,046iNaturalist observations
weight 955.6 gadult, up to
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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,046 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 956 g.
Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1769 (257 years ago).