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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

10,000 Birds

They hatch in burrows which are located (most of them) on a couple of islands on the British west coast. They were named for the Isle of Man but are no longer found there – the arrival of the brown rat ruined that home for them. (But But human beings are not uniformly evil. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land.