The first of two very similar all-brown shearwaters, familiar to British birders. Both are abundant,
but this is listed as near-threatened as its numbers are declining, although colonies of over one million are still in existence. Sooty Shearwater breeds
in Southern Chile and the Falklands, SE Australia and most of the NZ subantarctic islands, with a few birds on Tristan da Cunha. Birds disperse to the northern
hemisphere as far as Monterey Bay, the Gulf of Alaska, Greenland and NW Europe, although some remain off South Africa and in the Humboldt Current.
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