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Manx Shearwaters

10,000 Birds

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. A big moon gives enough light for the gulls to hunt by, so the shearwaters seldom come onto land while the full moon is up.