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Manx shearwater chick
Manx shearwater chick (Puffinus puffinus) sitting on the knee of a researcher before being returned to its burrow. The Manx shearwater lays a single egg in a burrow in early May. The chick is fed periodically during visits by its parents on moonless nights, and is then abandoned. It fledges and migrates, solo, to South America. Adults spend winter feeding at sea and return to breed in Europe in the spring. They are long-lived birds, the oldest recorded was over 50 years old. Photographed on Bardsey Island, Ynys Enlli, Wales. Photo by CORDELIA MOLLOY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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