Sooty Shearwater Photo Gallery
Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with silvery flashes under the wing. Note narrow wings, short tail, and slender, strongly hooked, tubenosed bill.
© Darren Clark / Macaulay LibraryCalifornia, August 25, 2019Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with straight, narrow wings, heavy body, and small head.
© David M. Bell / Macaulay LibraryBritish Columbia, October 21, 2018Often flies low to the water with stiff wingbeats interspersed with long glides.
© Blair Dudeck / Macaulay LibraryBritish Columbia, October 21, 2018Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with silvery flashes under the wing. Note slender, sharply hooked, tubenosed bill. Typically seen on the open ocean; only occasionally from shore.
© Darren Clark / Macaulay LibraryCalifornia, August 25, 2019Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with small, rounded head.
© Peter Steward / Macaulay LibraryWestern Cape, March 01, 2019Flock
Sometimes occurs in immense flocks such as in fall along the California coast. Breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and travels into most of the world's oceans on long annual migrations.
© Brian Rusnica / Macaulay LibraryCalifornia, August 23, 2017Compare with Similar Species
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Species in This Family
Shearwaters and Petrels(Order: Procellariiformes, Family: Procellariidae)
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