Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-06

Ardenna grisea

Sooty Shearwater

WoRMS 137202ITIS 1255050key itis:1255050

2026-08-05: worms_id 137202 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); itis:174553 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:1255050 (Ardenna grisea)

Silhouette · Edwin Price · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ardenna creatopus

Sooty Shearwater46 cm

bongo net ring71 cm

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Photograph of Ardenna grisea — Photo · Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

Seabirds & Marine Mammals 4,450 obs · 4,450 events · 1987–2022
name used: Ardenna griseus Sooty Shearwater · code SOSH synonym re-keyed

How big is it
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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.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:1255050%22

Ardenna grisea

How big is itiEvery 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.

Groups

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it
i
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.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.