Balearic Shearwater

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Balearic Shearwater	Home Bird Orders
		Alternate name
	Puffinus mauretanicus	Scientific name
	Procellariiformes	Order
	Procellariidae	Family
	34-39cm	Length
	Open ocean, Only come to land at nesting time. Breeds on Balearics. Eastern Central Atlantic, Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea. African mainland, European mainland Acores, Cape Verde vagrant Gibraltar native Israel vagrant, Malta, Madeira, Sicilia.	Habitat-Altitude-Range
	1 egg Feb to April in old rabbit burrow.	Clutch Eggs
	Small fish squid and shrimps	Food Diet
	Flies in at night to avoid predators.	Habits
	Not previously recognised,	World No
	Critically Endangered	Status

African mainland, [Native:- Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco.] [Rare/Accidental:- Egypt, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tunisia, Western Sahara, .]

Europe mainland:- Austria, Rare/Accidental, Belgium vagrant, Denmark vagrant, France native Germany vagrant, Ireland, native, Italy vagrant, Netherlands vagrant, Norway vagrant, Poland vagrant, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro Rare/Accidental, Spain native, Sweden vagrant, United Kingdom native,

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01/03/2008 0000000

25/10/2009 500,000

28/02/2012 870,300

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01/10/2010 562,291