Table 21.1 Breeding status of seabirds present in the Alboran Sea according to Paterson (1997),
Garrido Sánchez et al. (2002), and de Juana (2006)
Breeding
status
Occurrence Presence
Common name
Scientific name
Breeder
Abundant
All year
Black-headed gull
Yellow-legged gull
Chroicocephalus
ridibundus
Larus
m. michahellis
Common
April–
November
Scopoli’s shearwater
Calonectris
diomedea
All year
Audouin’s gull
Slender-billed gull
Larus audouinii
Chroicocephalus
genei
April–
September
Common tern
Little tern
Sterna hirundo
Sternula
albifrons
Scarce
All year
Mediterranean gull (abundant
in winter)
Mediterranean shag
Larus
melanocephalus
Gulosus
aristotelis
desmarestii
April–
September
Cory’s shearwater
Calonectris
borealis
Nonbreeder Abundant
August–
April
Lesser black-backed gull
Larus fuscus
graellsii
L. f. intermedius
September–
April
Northern gannet
Great cormorant
Morus bassanus
Phalacrocorax
carbo
Common
October–
June
Balearic shearwater
Puffinus
mauretanicus
March–
September
Gull-billed tern
Gelochelidon
nilotica
All year
Sandwich tern
Sterna
sandvicensis
Post- and
pre-breeding
migration
Black tern
Whiskered tern
Chlidonias niger
Chlidonias
hybridus
November–
April
Razorbill
Puffin
Alca torda
Fratercula
arctica
September–
April
Great skua
Stercorarius skua
Scarce
SeptemberApril
Arctic skua
Pomarine skua
Stercorarius
parasiticus
Stercorarius
pomarinus
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