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Balearic
Shearwater - Balearlire
- Puffinus
(yelkouan) mauretanicus
Balearic Shearwater, off Ibiza, March 2011
This shot shows a little of the plumage variation in Balearic Shearwater!
A picture of the most likely confusion species with Balearic Sheatwater, the Yelkouan is shown below. More pictures of Yelkouan Shearwater can be found on this page.
Yelkouan Shearwater, Marmora Straits, March 2010
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High resolution version of most images on this website are available for use. Please contact me for further details or other enquiries.
Puffin des Baléares
Balearic Shearwater, off Ibiza, March 2011
My experience has
shown
that shearwaters
can be hard to see offshore in the Mediterranean, often it is
only
occasional birds that are seen. The Bosporus and the sea of Marmora is
a different story - good numbers of Yelkouan
shearwater
can be seen here. Around the Balearics the aptly named Balearic
Sheawater can also be seen in large flocks - often close to land in the
breeding season when flocks gather prior to going ashore.
Normally only small numbers are seen with groups of several birds being the norm. I saw relatively few heading into the Mediterranean through the Gibraltar Straits in March / April 2011
Normally only small numbers are seen with groups of several birds being the norm. I saw relatively few heading into the Mediterranean through the Gibraltar Straits in March / April 2011
This shot shows a little of the plumage variation in Balearic Shearwater!
A picture of the most likely confusion species with Balearic Sheatwater, the Yelkouan is shown below. More pictures of Yelkouan Shearwater can be found on this page.
Yelkouan Shearwater, Marmora Straits, March 2010
All content on this site, including Natural Born Birder logo, is copyright © 2007-2017
High resolution version of most images on this website are available for use. Please contact me for further details or other enquiries.