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What the Cory's Shearwater sounds like
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This shearwater is identifiable by its size, at 45–56 cm (18–22 in) in length and with a 112–126 cm (44–50 in) wingspan. It has brownish-grey upperparts, white underparts and a yellowish bill. It lacks the brown belly patch, dark shoulder markings and black cap of the great shearwater.
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When to see the Cory's Shearwater
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Cory's Shearwater
The map shades 50 countries with regular records, and 37 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, Belgium, Türkiye, Mexico, Panama, Australia, Bermuda, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominica, St. Lucia, Albania, AX, Montenegro, Namibia, Oman, Kosovo, Faroe Islands, Jersey, Mauritania, Malta, Mozambique, Tunisia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Guernsey, Guinea, Honduras, Isle of Man, India, São Tomé & Príncipe, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela.
About the Cory's Shearwater
Cory's shearwater is a large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It breeds colonially on the archipelago of the Azores in the eastern Atlantic. Outside the breeding season it ranges widely in the Atlantic. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with Scopoli's shearwater.
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Easily confused with
Cape Verde ShearwaterCalonectris edwardsiiThe Cape Verde shearwater has a slim, dark bill, with head and upperparts darker than Cory's.
Streaked ShearwaterCalonectris leucomelasThis shearwater has broad wings with a brown upperside and white underwings.
Scopoli's ShearwaterCalonectris diomedeaScopoli's shearwater is 45–52 cm (18–20 in) in overall length with a wingspan of 112–122 cm (44–48 in).
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