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Puffinus griseus

(dark-bodied shearwater)

Overview

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Near Threatened

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Afrikaans:

Malbaartjie

Common Names in Dutch:

Grauwe Pijlstormvogel

Common Names in English:

black hag, black hagdon, dark-bodied shearwater, sooty shearwater, spectral shearwater

Common Names in French:

puffin fuligineux

Common Names in German:

Dunkler Sturmtaucher

Common Names in Hebrew:

יסעור כהה

Common Names in Italian:

Berta grigia

Common Names in Japanese:

ハイイロミズナギドリ

Common Names in Russian:

Серый буревестник

Common Names in Spanish:

Pardela gris, Pardela sombria

Common Names in Swedish:

Grålira

Description

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Physical Description

Adult : Bill: blackish Length : long Shape : slender Legs : Foot Color: dusky Wings : Shape: long, slender.

Size/Age/Growth

About 16 to 20 inches long, with a wingspan of 37 to 43 inches. Adults weigh about 28.8 ounces .

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 382 meters (0 to 1,253 feet).[1]

Ecology: It nests on islands and headlands in large colonies. Burrows are dug for breeding under tussock grass , low scrub and on the Snares Islands under Olearia forest . Birds typically do not return to their natal colonies until age four. It feeds on fish, crustacea and cephalopods , caught while diving. Short (1-3 days) and long (5-15 days) provisioning trips are made by parents; longer trips allow foraging along the Antarctic Polar Front, reducing competition close to breeding grounds and allowing vast colonies to persist.

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List of Habitats :

Biology

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Reproduction

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789) • Puffinus griseus (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) • Puffinus griseus Gmelin 1789

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 13-Jun-2007

Similar Species

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Short-Tailed Shearwater

Members of the genus Puffinus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 33 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. assimilis (Allied Shearwater) · P. assimilis assimilis (Little Shearwater) · P. atrodorsalis (Mascarene Shearwater) · P. auricularis ('a'o) · P. auricularis auricularis (Newell's Townsend's Shearwater) · P. auricularis newelli (Manx) · P. bannermani (Bannerman's Shearwater) · P. bulleri (Grey-Backed Shearwater) · P. carneipes (Flesh-Footed Shearwater) · P. creatopus (Pink-Footed Shearwater) · (Fluttering Shearwater) · P. gavia gavia (Fluttering Shearwater) · P. gravis (Common Atlantic Shearwater) · P. griseus (Dark-Bodied Shearwater) · P. heinrothi (Heinroth's Shearwater) · P. huttoni (Hutton's Shearwater) · P. iherminieri (Audubon's Shearwater) · P. lherminieri (Bannerman's Shearwater) · P. lherminieri lherminieri (Mascarene Shearwater) · P. lherminieri persicus (Audubon's Shearwater) · P. lherminieri subalaris (Audubon's Shearwater) · P. mauretanicus (Balearic Shearwater) · P. nativitatis (Christmas Island Shearwater) · P. newelli (Newell's Shearwater) · P. opisthomelas (Black-Vented Shearwater) · P. pacificus (Wedge-Tailed Shearwater) · P. persicus (Audubon's Shearwater) · P. puffinus (Black-Vented Shearwater) · P. puffinus opisthomelas (Manx Shearwater) · P. puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater) · P. puffinus yelkouan (Manx Shearwater) · P. tenuirostris (Slender-Billed Shearwater) · P. yelkouan (Mediterranean Shearwater)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = -1,276.890 meters (-4,189.272 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,901.810 based on 304 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
  2. BirdLife International 2010. Puffinus griseus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/14/2012