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Manx Shearwater calling into a burrow

01 August 2022 Comments Notes ...

BB eye – Petrels by night

01 April 2021 Comments Editorials In June 2012, Pol Dewulf and I travelled to Pico, in the Azores, to photograph the endemic orchids. On Pico, we learnt about a colony of Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris borealis and were recommended to visit the colony at night, when the birds ...

Seabird recovery on Lundy

01 April 2019 Comments Main paper Abstract ...

The shearwater’s world

01 January 2019 Comments Main paper The Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture ...

Foot projection as a field identification character for Balearic and Manx Shearwaters

01 April 2016 Comments Letters ...

Plumage variability and field identification of Manx, Yelkouan and Balearic Shearwaters

08 September 2015 Comments Main paper By Marcel Gil-Velasco, Guillermo RodrÃguez, Stephen Menzie and JosÃ© Manuel Arcos Abstract Three medium-sized Puffinus shearwaters breed in Europe: Manx P. puffinus, Yelkouan P. yelkouan and Balearic Shea...

Notes

01 June 2010 Comments Notes On 13th August 2009, along with several other observers, I was on board MV Celtic Wildcat taking part in a Sea Trust survey for cetaceans off the Pembrokeshire coast. About 40 km WSW of St Ann's Head, we encoun- tered 6-10 Fin Whales Balaenoptera physa...

Notes

01 March 2005 Comments Notes Little Grebe swallowing small mammal Cream-coloured Courser showing feeding attachement to desert road Exceptional numbers of Oriental Plovers in southern Siberia in 2003 Ruffs feeding on contents of Giraffe's stomach Ta...

The specific status of Balearic and Yelkouan Shearwaters

01 December 2002 Comments Main paper ...

Monthly marathon

01 December 2000 Comments Other It's a Ruff Philomachus pugnax, isn't it? October's Monthly Marathon picture (plate 300, repeated here as plate 363) is one that I expect many people will have recognised instantly without necessarily being able to put their finger on exactly ...