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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A Manx Shearwater in close-up |
| Image notes: |
A rare picture of a Manx Shearwater in the hand. |
| Species in Image: |
Manx Shearwater |
| Date: |
1984 |
| Area: |
Yell |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00249 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Manx Shearwater |
| Latin Name |
Puffinus puffinus |
| Shetland Name |
Leerie |
| Latin Group Name |
Procellariiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Procellariidae |
| Common Family Name |
Fulmar, Petrels and Shearwaters |
| Description |
A scarce summer visitor and passage migrant. These shearwaters used to nest on headland such as Sumbrugh Head in the south or Lamba Ness on Unst. In recent years numbers have declined.
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