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Home  >> Birds of New Zealand >> Sooty Shearwater ,

Sooty Shearwater , (Titi)

Species: Puffinus griseus

Breeding areas
Islands off NZ especially islands off Stewart I; Chatham, Antipodes, Auckland, Snares, Campbell, Solander and Macquarie Is; islands off Chile and Cape Horn; Falkland Is; islands off Tasmania and New South Wales.
Breeding season
September to May
Dispersal migration
Winters in northern, south-eastern and south-western Pacific.

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