Shearwater, Sooty
Description
Puffinus griseus. A sooty shearwater with a blackish brown upper surface . The tail wing primaries and secondaries are black. Under surface greyish brown. The bill is slate brown. It is mounted on a rectangular piece of rough timber - wings are closed and it is seated slightly with its webbed feet at the front.
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Sooty
shearwater
is
a
dark
coloured
bird
that
spends
a
lot
of
time
at
sea.
They
feed
on
crustaceans
by
flying
into
the
water.
They
can
be
seen
around
the
coast
and
sometimes
in
flocks
of
tens
of
thousands.
They
were
harvested
around
stewart
Island
by
the
descendants
of
the
Rakiura
Maori.
Accession number
A70.651
Collection type
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