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Sooty shearwater

Puffinus griseus

8,460Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
45Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan16
Feb11
Mar20
Apr23
May47
Jun100
Jul498
Aug2,940
Sep3,081
Oct1,342
Nov339
Dec41

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England1,619
2East Riding of Yorkshire England797
3Norfolk England401
4Orkney Islands Scotland299
5Fife Scotland268
6Shetland Islands —231
7Kent England224
8Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland177
9North Yorkshire England167
10Isles of Scilly England160
11Suffolk England158
12Pembrokeshire Wales111
13Highland Scotland94
14Dorset England83
15Aberdeen City Scotland71
6,008 England1,721 Scotland157 Wales70 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 45 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,460
Peak month
September
Counties with records
45
Scientific name
Puffinus griseus
Group
Birds
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Procellariidae
Genus
Puffinus
Name with authority
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789)
Described
1789
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q215267 · GBIF 5739277