The Manx shearwater eats small fish like sand eels, sprats, and herrings, along with squids, crustaceans, and offal floating on the water. It catches food by diving or picking it off the …

The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters …

Manx shearwaters feed during the daylight hours. They catch food off the surface or by pursuit diving and forage alone or in small flocks. They can be attracted by feeding cetaceans but …

What do manx shearwaters eat? Manx shearwaters eat mainly small fish such as herrings, sprats, sardines, and sand eels, but will also take squid and crustaceans. It forages by plunging into …

Feeds on a variety of common small fish, especially herrings, sprats, sardines, sand lance; also squid, crustaceans. Breeding behavior known mostly from studies around Great Britain. …

The Manx shearwater feeds on small fish (herrings, sprats, and sand eels), crustaceans, cephalopods, and surface offal. The bird catches food off the surface or by pursuit diving, and …

Whilst not exceptionally strong for its size, the Manx Shearwater possesses sufficient strength to dive up to 55 metres deep for prey and to dig its own burrows for nesting.

Because Manx shearwaters are not very good at moving on land, they can be easily attacked by large gulls like the great black-backed gull. Birds of prey such as the peregrine falcon also …

External nostrils on the upper mandible endow these birds with an unusually well developed sense of smell and contain a gland used for excreting salt. The order has four families …

Manx Shearwater feed on small pelagic schooling fish (especially sardines, sprat and herring) small crustaceans, squids, molluscs, cephalopods, planktons and floating offals. They catch …