Petrels & Shearwaters in Maine
Our list for Maine has 4 petrels & shearwaters recorded regularly there: 1 summer visitor and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Maine in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisPassage migrantUncommon43–51 cmRegularly Jun–Oct
FulmarFulmarus glacialisPassage migrantUncommon45–50 cmRegularly Jun–Oct
Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinusPassage migrantUncommon30–38 cmRegularly Jun–Sep
Sooty ShearwaterArdenna griseaSummer visitorRare40–51 cmRegularly May–Oct
Smallest to largest
Length, cmBody length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made