{"id":2486,"date":"2007-07-31T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/31\/sooty-shearwater-fact-sheet\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:09:17","slug":"sooty-shearwater-fact-shee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sooty-shearwater-fact-shee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooty shearwater fact sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ardenna griseus\u00a0<\/em>| Sooty shearwater<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The sooty shearwater is a medium sized shearwater reaching a length of 40 -50 cm, with a weight of 650 – 950 g and a wingspan of 93 – 106 cm. They have a dark colouration with long, pointed wings. In low light they can appear black and in good light chocolate brown with a pale band on the underside of the wing center. The beak is dark and they feed on small fish, shrimps and other crustaceans, squid<\/a> and jellyfish. They lay one egg at a time which is incubated for 53 days and fledging occurs after 97 days. Sooty shearwaters can live to be 34 years old. They can dive as deep as 68 m to catch fish and they often follow whales and dolphins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portuguese: Perdela preta
Spanish: Pardela sombr\u00eda
French:\u00a0Puffin fuligineux
Italian: Berta grigia
German:\u00a0Dunkle Sturmtaucher
Dutch: Grauwe pijlstormvogel
Swedish:\u00a0Gr\u00e5lira
Norwegian:\u00a0Gr\u00e5lire
Danish: –\u00a0
Finnish:\u00a0Nokiliit\u00e4j\u00e4
Polish:\u00a0Burzyk szary
Russian:\u00a0\u0421\u0435\u0440\u044b\u0439 \u0431\u0443\u0440\u0435\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u0438\u043a<\/p>\n\n\n\n