Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Sooty Shearwater

  FAMILY -               Procellariidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Puffinus griseus

  SYNONYMS - Procellaria grisea - Gmelin, 1764.

  REFERENCES - 1

  National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status    Reference

  No Valid or Questionable Record                            3
  Insufficient information, uncertain                        3
  Accidental-Bze not part of normal range.                   2
  

  

                                                                        
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Coastal zone, not including cayes.                         Accidental       2
  

  

                                        
  

  

                         
  

  

                                                
  

  

                                                
  

  General Distribution Comments

  2* One record in mangroves and beaches along the coast of the mainland.

  References

  1  A.O.U. 1983.  Checklist of North American Birds. Sixth Edition.
  
  2  Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of
     Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12.
  
  3  Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize,
     Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern.  Report to Programme for
     Belize/TNC Wings of America Program.