Every summer, millions of sooty shearwaters arrive off the coast of California, their huge flocks astonishing visitors who may have trouble grasping that the dark swirling clouds over the water ...

Scientists have long known that sooty shearwaters breed in New Zealand and Chile and migrate to feeding grounds in the Northern Hemisphere. But the details of this remarkable transequatorial migration ...

The specimen of the sub-adult female sooty shearwater now joins the Feather Library’s collection of over 350 specimens A sooty shearwater, a rare oceanic bird known for its transoceanic migrations, ...

Being on the ocean encircled by sooty shearwaters is probably as close as I will ever get in life to becoming royalty; fanned by thousands of synchronized flapping wings, in a sound bath of rambling ...

The annual 40,000-mile trip by a species of sea bird around the Pacific Ocean is the longest migration recorded by electronic tracking, scientists say. The sooty shearwaters' journey took them from ...

Many bird species undertake incredible migrations, but some, like the Arctic Tern and Sooty Shearwater, travel distances exceeding tens of thousands of miles annually. These feathered adventurers ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Shearwaters are long-winged, strong-flying seabirds of the open ocean who come ashore ...

The endangered sooty shearwater bird, which lives in the oceans, was spotted in Hatay, Turkiye's southern province. The bird, also known as Ardenna grisea, was spotted by birdwatchers Emin ...

The sooty shearwater is one of the world's most common seabirds — but it may not be so common after all... A new study suggests the species is also a champion long-distance flyer. Scientists believe ...

A few years ago I joined a group of birders on a pelagic trip. (Pelagic relates to the open ocean.) We drove to the south shore of Long Island where we boarded a small ship. On it we headed out into ...

It’s time to look for newly hatched western fence lizards, commonly called “blue bellies.” The subspecies we have in Marin is the coast range fence lizard. Their range ends in southern Sonoma County, ...