Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with silvery flashes under the wing. Note narrow wings, short tail, and slender, strongly hooked, tubenosed bill.
Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with straight, narrow wings, heavy body, and small head.
Often flies low to the water with stiff wingbeats interspersed with long glides.
Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with silvery flashes under the wing. Note slender, sharply hooked, tubenosed bill. Typically seen on the open ocean; only occasionally from shore.
Relatively large, all-dark shearwater with small, rounded head.
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Gull-sized but with narrower wings and a smaller, rounded head. The bill is long, slender, and strongly hooked, with tubelike nostrils set on top of the bill. Tail is fairly short.
Larger than a Bonaparte's Gull, smaller than a Herring Gull.
crow-sizedShearwaters and Petrels(Order: Procellariiformes, Family: Procellariidae)
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