British Birds » News: 600th species added to the British List
Feb 18th 2016, 16:00, by Roger Riddington A Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan seen off Berry Head, Devon, on 29th July 2008 has finally been accepted, and becomes the 600th bird on the British List. The bird was seen by Mike Langman and Mark Darlaston while looking for a similar species, Balearic Shearwater P . mauretanicus . Balearic (above) and Yelkouan Shearwater (below), Castellon, Spain, December 2014. This side-by-side comparison reveals the larger size and bulky, pot-bellied structure of Balearic, and the slimmer, more attenuated appearance of Yelkouan. Pic by Victor Paris. The Yelkouan Shearwater breeds on islands and coastal cliffs in the Mediterranean Sea, mainly in the east. The majority of the Yelkouan population moves east outside the breeding season to winter in the Black Sea, but small numbers (presumably of the westernmost breeding birds) are known to move west and enter the North Atlantic to find food during ...
