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The Royal Naval Birdwatching Society has recently published Volume 62 of its annual journal Sea Swallow for 2013.  It carries an article describing recent research undertaken on the ACAP-listed and Critically Endangered Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus at its breeding sites on the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Menorca.

Russell Wynn (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK) and British and Mallorcan colleagues continued to deploy GLS and GPS trackers and time-depth recorders to birds for the third year.  Click here for more details of this year’s and previous year’s field work and here to access an earlier publication by the research group on results from the first year of at-sea tracking.

Balearic Shearwater in its breeding cave, photographed by Miguel McMinn

Click here and here for ACAP Breeding Site accounts for the Balearic Shearwater, including Sa Cella where the studies reported here have been undertaken.

With thanks to the Royal Naval Birdwatching Society.

Reference:

Wynn, R.B. 2013.  Tagging and tracking the critically endangered Balearic Shearwater: summer 3013 update.   Sea Swallow 62: 10-15.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 05 December 2013