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Colloquial / Alternate names: Status in Europe:Rare Where and When: the current thought is that it is actually made up three species - Cory's from the Atlantic islands - Scopoli's from the Mediterranean slightly smaller and narrower-winged paler above and with more white on the unside of the primaries - Cape Verde from Cape Verde Islands is smaller still with a greyish slimmer bill and a narrow long-tailed look Scopoli's Shearwater Cape Verde Shearwater,Breeds from Portugal and the Azores to the Canary Islands - Other subspecies breed in the Cape Verde archipelago and in the Mediterranean - Adult Cory's Shearwaters dwell in colonies in the eastern Atlantic from May to October - Banding returns suggest that the birds winter off South Africa and Argentina migrate up the west side of the Atlantic and en route to the eastern Atlantic - Very rare in northern Europe away from the Mediterranean, Habitat: Sea Notes: A large and with experience distinctive shearwater with broad wings and heavy body - medium brown above white below dividing line between brown and white on the face and neck blurred not crisp as in the Great Shearwater often has white uppertail coverts which can be difficult to see in the field - bill yellow noticeably long and stout - Cory's Shearwaters have a distinctive almost gull-like flight with four to six languid wing beats followed by slow glides with wing tips held depressed - quite unlike the more rapid wing beats of Great - Often treated as having three sub-species More Photos:
Cory's Shearwater
,Cory's Shearwater