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Balearic Shearwater

Puffinus mauretanicus

4,086Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
43Counties with records
Critically EndangeredIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan19
Feb5
Mar3
Apr21
May53
Jun109
Jul467
Aug1,508
Sep1,251
Oct588
Nov49
Dec13

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England1,682
2Dorset England515
3Kent England258
4Pembrokeshire Wales174
5Torbay England123
6Norfolk England103
7Isles of Scilly England88
8Devon England76
9East Riding of Yorkshire England60
10North Yorkshire England49
11Fife Scotland29
12Gwynedd Wales21
13Suffolk England15
14South Ayrshire Scotland11
15Ceredigion Wales9
3,679 England81 Scotland234 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 43 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,086
Peak month
August
Counties with records
43
IUCN Red List
Critically Endangered
Scientific name
Puffinus mauretanicus
Group
Birds
Conservation designations
OSPAR list, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Scottish Biodiversity List, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Procellariidae
Genus
Puffinus
Name with authority
Puffinus mauretanicus Lowe, 1921
Described
1921
Contributing datasets
10

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q704081 · GBIF 5229360