Manx Shearwaters
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape. Shearwater remains litter the island with the carcasses picked clean, leaving just the wings, breastbone and girdle.
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