Scopoli's Shearwater

• Its night-time call at the colonies is a guttural moaning likened to a baby crying or a cat mewing, and on several Mediterranean islands it has fed legends of tormented souls on the cliffs.
• The chicks that leave the nest in autumn are disorientated by artificial lights and come down on roads and in villages: in the Canaries and the Balearics, rescue campaigns are organised every year to collect thousands of young shearwaters and return them to the sea.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

The open sea of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic; it breeds on cliffs and islets in the Mediterranean

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

54 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

1 egg

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calonectris_diomedea

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.