Marinelife Survey Report: Plymouth-Roscoff ferry 6 April 2008

Peter Howlett, Claudia Strauss, Marinelife Research Surveyors

Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena 1

Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis 81
Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus 206 (over 160 of them were in 2 loose groups 20 miles south of Plymouth)
Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus 1
Gannet Morus bassanus 74
Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo 2
Great Skua Stercorarius skua 8
Parasitic (Arctic) Skua Stercorarius parasiticus 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus 1
Little Gull Larus minutus 5
Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla 5
Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis 1
Guillemot Uria aalge 22
Razorbill Alca torda 3
Unidentified Auk species 16

Casual record in Roscoff harbour
Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus 1