Ardenna grisea
Sooty Shearwater
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137202 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); itis:174553 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:1255050 (Ardenna grisea)
The sooty shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand, it is also known by its Māori name tītī, and is harvested by Māori people for muttonbird, like its relatives the wedge-tailed shearwater and the Australian short-tailed shearwater.W CalCOFI holds 4,450 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R
- 4,450
- observations
- 4,450
- records
- 4,450
- sampling events
- 1987–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 46 cm
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Ardenna griseus Sooty Shearwater · code
SOSHsynonym re-keyed
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:1255050")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:1255050'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 46 cm max
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Ardenna
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Edwin Price · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ardenna creatopus · source
- Photo · Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Sooty shearwater” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362632957
- Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗