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The shearwater’s world

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

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...

Mystery photographs

01 April 1988 Comments Main paper A quick glance at the distinctive bill-shape and long, pointed wings of last month's mystery bird (plate 73, repeated here as plate 89) is sufficient to identify it as a shearwater. The astute reader, confident in our sense of fair play, would have imm...

Manx Shearwaters on Skomer: Population and mortality due to gull predation

01 April 1973 Comments Main paper Skomer Island, lying off the south-western tip of the rocky Pembrokeshire coast, has long been recognised as an important breeding site for Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus. The breeding biology and winter migrations of this species are now well know...

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The shearwater’s world

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Mystery photographs

Manx Shearwaters on Skomer: Population and mortality due to gull predation

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