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<ul> <li>New research finds that individual behavioural flexibility and not evolutionary selection is driving the northward shift of Balearic shearwaters.</li> <li>The findings were revealed through a decade-long study which tagged individual birds.</li> <li>The results indicate that individual animals may have greater behavioural flexibility to respond to climate change impacts than previously thought.</li> </ul>
BirdLife said on Friday it will continue studying seabirds on land and at sea following the start of a new project - LIFE PanPuffinus! This will be a Mediterranean-wide collaboration for the conservation of two endemic and threatened species: the Yelkouan shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) and the Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus). Through the new €3.45 million project, BirdLife has joined forces with its partners from France, Greece, Portugal and Spain to share knowledge and investigate further the whereabouts of these elusive birds, their interactions with fisheries, and the peril...