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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a9 Hiroyuki & Shoko Tanoi<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a9 Yann Muzika<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Birdfinding.info <\/em><\/strong>\u21d2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Fairly common in offshore and coastal waters of Japan, Taiwan, and southern South Korea, where it occurs year-round but is more common from March to November.\u00a0 It can often be seen from ferries, including the routes from Honshu north to Hokkaido and south to the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, from Busan to Jeju Island, and from Taipei to Dongyin.\u00a0 Accessible seawatch points where it can often be seen include Choshi (east of Tokyo), Magang Harbor (east of Keelung, Taiwan), and Laotieshan Lighthouse (Liaoning, China).\u00a0 In eastern Australia a few are seen most years in January and February on pelagic trips out of Southport, Kiama, and Sydney.\u00a0 The handful of California records are concentrated in Monterey Bay.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Calonectris leucomelas<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Family: Procellariidae<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Breeds in East Asia and disperses south through the western Pacific and adjacent seas.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a9 BirdLife International 2018<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Breeding.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Nests colonially in burrows and crevices on islets.\u00a0 Arrives at colonies in March and departs around late October.<\/p> Colonies are located on islets along the coasts of the main Japanese islands from Hokkaido to Kyushu, south through the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan, offshore to the Ogasawara Islands, and along the along both sides of the Korean Peninsula north at least to Vladivostok Bay (Karamzina Island) and west along the China\u2019s Yellow Sea coast to Shandong (Dagong Island).<\/p> Nonbreeding<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 During the breeding season, nonbreeders occur throughout East Asian waters beyond the usual breeding areas, from the southern Sea of Okhotsk to Taiwan, mostly in near-coastal waters and at low densities over open ocean in the western Pacific.\u00a0 Much of the global population remains in these areas year-round.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t From November to March a significant portion of the population migrates south into waters of western Micronesia, eastern Indonesia, the Banda, Timor, Arafura, and Solomon Seas.\u00a0 Small numbers migrate to the Coral and Tasman Seas, regularly south to the vicinity of Sydney, casually to Victoria, and once to North Island, New Zealand (found dead on Kawhia Beach, Waikato in February 2006).<\/p> In the Indian Ocean, regularly winters south along the western coast of Australia to the vicinity of Perth.\u00a0 Rarely reported from waters of Southeast Asia and western Indonesia, but apparently regular in small numbers, with occasional records (some of small flocks) across the Bay of Bengal as far as southwestern India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwaters in breeding colony on Hide-jima.\u00a0 (Iwate, Japan; September 11, 2010.) \u00a0\u00a9 Hiroyuki Tanoi<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t In the central and eastern Pacific, vagrants have been recorded on several occasions in nearshore waters of California (most around Monterey Bay in September-October), Hawaii, and Oregon; and once far inland in Wyoming (found dead June 13, 2006).<\/p> Exceptional vagrants have been recorded west across the Indian Ocean to Eilat (Israel), the Gulf of Oman, and eastern South Africa (offshore from Durban).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Identification<\/strong><\/span><\/p> A large, lanky, broad-winged shearwater with a fairly long wedge-shaped tail, brown upperparts, white underparts, a mostly white face with variable speckles and streaks, and a long pale-gray bill.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing wedge-shaped tail and pattern of pale and darker brown on the upperparts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; February 2, 2020.) \u00a0\u00a9 Paul Lynch<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t The head can be either mostly brown or mostly white, but is usually mixed, with white predominant on the face and forehead and brown on the crown.\u00a0 Nearly always shows significant specking and streaking.<\/p> The upperparts also vary: sometimes nearly solid dark or warm-brown overall, but more typically a mix of paler and darker brown, often extensively scaled with whitish fringes, and sometimes showing a distinct dark M pattern.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing distinctive streaked primary coverts on the underwing.\u00a0 (Offshore from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; February 2, 2020.) \u00a0\u00a9 Jodi Webber<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater.\u00a0 (Offshore from Mooloolaba Queensland, Australia; March 4, 2017.)\u00a0 \u00a9 Chris Pratt<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing extensive whitish scaling on brown upperparts.\u00a0 (Offshore northeast of Keelung, Taiwan; May 4, 2021.) \u00a0\u00a9 Jimmy Yao<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater.\u00a0 (Offshore from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; February 2, 2020.) \u00a0\u00a9 Jodi Webber<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater with mostly white head and irregular white scaling on the back.\u00a0 (Offshore from Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan; September 19, 2011.) \u00a0\u00a9 Stuart Price<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater with mostly solid dark-brown upperparts and mostly white head.\u00a0 (Laotieshan Nature Reserve, Liaoning, China; August 9, 2014.) \u00a0\u00a9 Tom Beeke<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater with mostly warm-brown upperparts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Kiama, New South Wales, Australia; February 22, 2020.) \u00a0\u00a9 Paul Lynch<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater.\u00a0 (Offshore between the Torishima and Ogasawara Islands, Japan; May 26, 2017.) \u00a0\u00a9 Lars Petersson<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing dark M pattern and extensive whitish scaling on brown upperparts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Miyake-jima, Izu Islands, Japan; April 2019.) \u00a0\u00a9 Ian Wilson<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater.\u00a0 (Offshore from Maizuru, Kyoto, Honshu, Japan; July 15, 2019.) \u00a0\u00a9 Hiroyuki & Shoko Tanoi<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater.\u00a0 (Offshore from Kiama, New South Wales, Australia; January 25, 2020.) \u00a0\u00a9 Chris Barnes<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater with irregular scaling on back.\u00a0 (Offshore east of Yilan, Taiwan; August 2019.) \u00a0\u00a9 chih-wei_jack_chang<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t The underparts are essentially all-white, including the wing-linings, with dark tail and flight feathers, except that it has distinctive dark streaks across the primary coverts\u2014a unique pattern.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing characteristic streaking on underwing primary coverts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; February 2, 2020.) \u00a0\u00a9 Richard Webber<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater with atypically subtle streaking on underwing primary coverts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan; September 19, 2011.) \u00a0\u00a9 Stuart Price<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing characteristic streaking on underwing primary coverts.\u00a0 (Offshore north of Higashidori, Aomori, Honshu, Japan; August 11, 2019.) \u00a0\u00a9 Shoko Tanoi<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing characteristic streaking on underwing primary coverts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Kiama, New South Wales, Australia; February 27, 2021.) \u00a0\u00a9 Scott Baker<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater.\u00a0 (Monterrey Bay, California; October 12, 2008.) \u00a0\u00a9 Todd Easterla<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater with atypically subtle streaking on underwing primary coverts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Miyake-jima, Izu Islands, Japan; April 2019.) \u00a0\u00a9 Ian Wilson<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Streaked Shearwater showing characteristic streaking on underwing primary coverts.\u00a0 (Offshore from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; February 2, 2020.) \u00a0\u00a9 Paul Lynch<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"http:\/\/seabirding-japan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Streaked-Shearwater_190715Maizuru_8258.jpg\")
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