MANX SHEARWATER (Puffinus puffinus)

Very rare visitor.

Three records: one was found alive 12 September 1974 following storm force Westerly gales on 7 and 8 September and, was later released in Wales; one found on 22 July 1977 at Hampson Park, and released on the Welsh Coast the following day; one found at Newgate on 20 September 1980, after sometime in care it too was released in South Wales, but failed to go, and was taken to a bird sanctuary in Newquay where it died later.