The sooty shearwater is one of the world's most common seabirds — but it may not be so common after all... A new study suggests the species is also a champion long-distance flyer. Scientists believe ...

Every summer, millions of sooty shearwaters arrive off the coast of California, their huge flocks astonishing visitors who may have trouble grasping that the dark swirling clouds over the water ...

Welsh communities rescue over 1,000 seabirds so far this year. The Manx Shearwater is a lesser-known seabird but one everyone ...

The annual 40,000-mile trip by a species of sea bird around the Pacific Ocean is the longest migration recorded by electronic tracking, scientists say. The sooty shearwaters' journey took them from ...

A few years ago I joined a group of birders on a pelagic trip. (Pelagic relates to the open ocean.) We drove to the south shore of Long Island where we boarded a small ship. On it we headed out into ...

Robyn Williams: And so to the south where we visit some birds who've been flying huge distances since who knows when and who will soon be travelling across the globe, even though some of them have ...

LONDON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Move over Arctic terns, the sooty shearwaters have reportedly replaced you in the record books as having the longest migration on record. The sooty shearwater -- also known as ...

The migratory movements of seabirds (especially smaller species) remain poorly understood, despite their role as harvesters of marine ecosystems on a global scale and their potential as indicators of ...