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upperwing underwing European distribution

Identification

It is paler and greyer than other European shearwaters with an obvious pale straw-coloured bill. Even at a distance though it can be picked out by its larger size and much slower, steadier, less frenzied flight action.

Habitat

Oceanic.

Behaviour

They return to their breeding colonies at night, when the area becomes alive with their calls.

Migration

The species is strongly migratory. Birds are present in their breeding areas from late February to October-November. Non-breeding birds summer in the North Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay to the New England coast. All of these birds move south to winter off South Africa.

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For the purposes of our bird news services, Cory's Shearwater is classed as Scarce: broadly speaking, species that are covered in British Birds' annual review of scarce species (and forms of similar rarity).

Parga to Paxos ferry, Ionian Islands, Greece 20/08/2010	Parga to Paxos ferry, Ionian Islands, Greece 20/08/2010	Parga to Paxos ferry, Ionian Islands, Greece 20/08/2010	Bay of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain 21/08/2010	Off Tenerife, Spain 01/08/2007
La Gomera, Spain 28/05/2010	Whitburn, Durham 24/08/2009	at sea, Mallorca, Spain 12/08/2009	at sea, Mallorca, Spain 12/08/2009	at sea, Mallorca, Spain 12/08/2009

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Cory's Shearwater breeds in the following countries (Bird News Extra subscribers will see population statistics and information on trends for each country):

Azores
Canary Islands
Croatia
France
Greece
Italy
Madeira
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Turkey

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