Balearic Shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus) Length: 13-14 ins (34-36 cm) Wingspan: 33-37 ins (83-93 cm) Food: Small pelagic fish, taken by pursuit-diving and surface-seizing Breeding: One egg in a crevice or cave, on small coastal islands and sea cliffs.

The white on the underparts (belly) tends to appear as an isolated patch. Read more. Balearic shearwater. Light eye ring and grey bill. The first time I remember seeing a Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus was on 17 September 1997, while watching seabird passage from the old lighthouse on North Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland. The great shearwater is a large shearwater, about the same size as a fulmar. Its larger size suggests that food was plentiful near the Balearic Islands at that time. Balearic Shearwater may not be the most colourful bird, it’s rather brownish and could be mistaken for a gull by an untrained eye, but it’s special. In flight, has heavy looking belly and toes that project beyond short tail. very few birds remain, it does not lend itself to intensive research. Measurements: Length: 43-51cm Wingspan: 100-118cm Weight: 715-950g Identifying features: Great shearwater.

Great shearwater. Status of Balearic Shearwater, White-beaked Dolphin and other marine animals in Lyme Bay and surrounding waters Tom Brereton 1, Russell Wynn 2, Colin MacLeod 1, Sarah Bannon 1, Becky Scott 1, Jo Waram 1, Kate Lewis 1, James Phillips 3, Clive Martin 1, Roger Covey 3 1 Marinelife, 2 SeaWatch SW, 3 Natural England Marinelife Read more. Identification record : Balearic Shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus) is a bird which belongs to the family of Procellariidés and the order of Procellariiformes. ID Pointers.

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No audio available. Balearic shearwater have dark brown upperparts with slightly darker flight feathers and tail. In flight, has heavy looking belly and toes that project beyond short tail.

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Balearic Shearwater: Puffinus mauretanicus. My friends (Luuk, Frank and Ben) called me to go birding in the province of Noord-Holland. Quick links. Dark brown above, dark brown and white on underparts, and white wing linings. Balearic (above) and Yelkouan Shearwater (below), Castellon, Spain, December 2014. Only in the 1990s determined as a separate species from Manx and Yelkouan Shearwaters, and considered endemic to the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Balearic Shearwater is classified as critically endangered with a fast declining population. Please note the publication date is TBC due to COVID-19. What they eat: Fish and squid. Seawatch SW: Project Shearwater – 2014 update.
Sooty shearwater. Criteria: A4bcde Click here for more information about the Red List categories and criteria Justification of Red List category This species has a small breeding range and a relatively small population which is undergoing an extremely rapid decline, largely related to low adult (and immature) survival rates. Identification. Read more. Read more. Their main goal was to try to get a view of a Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus.Problem with Balearic Shearwaters is, it takes hours and hours of watching over an empty sea to get a short glimpse of this bird. Faster and frenetic flight, interrupted with short glides, compared to larger and more common Scopoli’s Shearwater; Pot-bellied, with dark vent and dirty flanks Typical birds have white throats and bellies with brown breasts and flanks. The Balearic shearwater can mainly be seen off the coast of south England, in particular Cornwall, Devon and Dorset and west Wales, but also into the North Sea, off the east coast. With an annual decline of around 8%, the Balearic Shearwater is one of the rarest seabirds in the world. However, given that this species is critically endangered, i.e. These data may help in the identification of major important areas for the conservation of marine megafauna such as marine mammals and seabirds, including the Balearic shearwater. It has dark grey-brown upperparts and pale underparts with a distinctive dark cap and pale neck, as well as dark underwing edges. We had been watching hundreds of Sooty Shearwaters P griseus and a smaller number of Manx Shearwaters P puffinus streaming into the North Sea, when a Balearic passed in good light, heading the other way. … It shows general distribution rather than detailed, localised populations. We spend 90% of net income on conservation, public education and advocacy. The yelkouan shearwater has a more contrasted appearance than the Balearic shearwater with which its winter range overlaps, since the latter species is brown above and dirty white below.