Bird Guide Shearwaters and Petrels Sargasso Shearwater
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Sargasso Shearwater

Sargasso Shearwater
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At a Glance

All bird guide text and rangemaps adapted from Lives of North American Birds by Kenn Kaufman© 1996, used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Category
Gull-like Birds, Shearwaters and Petrels
IUCN Status
Least Concern
Habitat
Open Ocean
Region
Florida, Mid Atlantic, New England, Southeast, Texas
Behavior
Flap/Glide, Rapid Wingbeats, Swimming

Range & Identification

Migration & Range Maps

Description

Size
About the size of a Crow, About the size of a Robin
Color
Black, White
Wing Shape
Pointed, Short, Tapered
Tail Shape
Pointed, Rounded, Wedge-shaped

Songs and Calls

Call Pattern
Flat
Call Type
Odd, Raucous, Scream
Change in Abundance Over Time
Drawing on more than a century of community science from the Christmas Bird Count (CBC), this chart shows how this species’ relative abundance has shifted in recent decades. Explore more and get involved in the CBC.

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Murals, Art, and Culture

Artists throughout history and across the U.S. have captured this bird in murals, books, and museum hangings. See what they’ve done: