Nesting of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus Brünnich, 1764) on the Island of Tenerife (Canary Islands)

• Main Authors: Hernández, Efraín, Nogales, Manuel, Quilis, Vicente, Delgado, Guillermo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig 1990
• Subjects: Seabirds; Breeding; Puffinus puffinus; Canary Islands; Burrows; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/23726

Nesting of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) on the Island of Tenerife has been confirmed for the first time. A total of seven burrows have been localized on a ledge of a deep ravine in the NW of the island, 3 km inland. Four of them showed definite signs of being occupied whereas the remainin...