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sooty shearwater

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sooty shearwater
n.
A shearwater (Puffinus griseus) of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, having sooty gray or brown plumage and dark bill and feet. Also called mutton-bird.


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North Wales had a fair pick of the action: Balearic shearwaters were seen from the Little Orme, Bull Bay, Point Lynas, Porth Ysgaden and Holy Island; sooty shearwaters from Point of Ayr, Point Lynas, Porth Ysgaden, North Stack and Bardsey Island; two European storm-petrels and a Sabine's gull from Porth Ysgaden.
On September 16, a total of 2,005 Sooty Shearwaters flew past the islands ( a new Northumberland record and the third highest count in Britain.
Watch the coast for northern fulmars and sooty shearwaters and look for wayward marine birds such as petrels and phalaropes at inland lakes and reservoirs.
 
 
 
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