Birds

Bulwer’s Petrels are one of the birds for which there is no clear sexual dimorphism. This bird is named, in english, after the Scottish…

Manx Shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus) gained its English name from the Isle of Man, where these marine birds form large colonies. It is regarded as…

The Barolo Shearwater(Puffinus assimilis baroli) is also known as North Atlantic Little Shearwater or Macaronesian Shearwater because the species has been recognized as endemic…

The great shearwater (Puffinus gravis) is a large shearwater species previously identified with the latin name Ardenna gravis. In the Azores they are usually…

Cory’s Shearwater is a marine migratory species breeding in the Macaronesia region. They are the most representative marine bird species in the Azores Islands,…