Manx Shearwater
Habitat and behaviour
Habitat: Atlantic; islands (summer).
Diet: Fish, squid.
Best time to spot: Banks low over waves; nocturnal at colony.
When to look
Resident in the UK, so it can be found year-round. Numbers peak in May. See the May birding guide for what else is about. More on the season in British seabirds.
Where to see it
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Similar birds
- Audubon's Shearwater · Pelagic (very rare)
- Balearic ShearwaterRare · South coast (autumn)
- Mediterranean Shearwater · Med + Bay of Biscay
- European Storm PetrelRare · Atlantic; remote islands
- Arctic SkuaUncommon · Northern moors (summer); sea (passage)
- Arctic TernUncommon · Northern coasts (summer)
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