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.
From Scopoli's Shearwater
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 that collect thousands of young shearwaters to return them to the sea.
From Scopoli's Shearwater
The most threatened seabird in Europe; it breeds only in the Balearics.
From Balearic Shearwater
It is one of the most threatened seabirds in Europe, breeding almost entirely in the Balearic Islands, with a small world population.
From Balearic Shearwater
It is a strict Spanish endemic: every colony in the world is in the Balearics, and Spain is therefore directly responsible for the future of the species.
From Balearic Shearwater
One documented bird reached 50.9 years of age, an exceptional lifespan.
From Manx Shearwater
Left behind by its parents, the chick loses weight on its own for over a week before it first takes to the air.
From Manx Shearwater
The English word 'puffin' originally belonged to this bird and was later transferred to the seabird that carries it today, because the two nest in much the same way.
From Manx Shearwater

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