Table 1. Demographic data of the seabird species admitted to the Tafira Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (Gran Canaria Island, Spain) (2003–2013).
Species | Number of seabirds (%) | Sex | Age | |||
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M/Fa | Unknown | <1 year | >1 year | Unknown | ||
Order Procellariiformes | 915 (46.78) | 35/55 | 825 | 207 | 317 | 391 |
Family Procellariidae | ||||||
Cory’s Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea borealis) | 393 (20.09) | 34/54 | 305 | 38 | 193 | 162 |
Bulwer’s Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) | 185 (9.45) | 0/1 | 184 | 98 | 33 | 54 |
Barolo Shearwater (Puffinus baroli) | 10 (0.51) | - | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) | 11 (0.56) | - | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) | 7 (0.35) | 1/0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) | 1 (0.05) | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Family Hydrobatidae | ||||||
Leach’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) | 128 (6.54) | - | 128 | 29 | 17 | 82 |
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma castro) | 16 (0.81) | - | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
European Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus pelagicus) | 6 (0.31) | - | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
White-faced Storm-Petrel (Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca) | 158 (8.07) | - | 158 | 21 | 64 | 73 |
Order Suliformes | 53 (2.71) | 0/1 | 52 | 24 | 21 | 8 |
Family Sulidae | ||||||
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) | 52 (2.65) | 0/1 | 51 | 23 | 21 | 8 |
Family Phalacrocoracidae | ||||||
European Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) | 1 (0.05) | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Order Charadriiformes | 988 (50.51) | 13/19 | 956 | 194 | 181 | 613 |
Family Laridae | ||||||
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) | 24 (1.22) | - | 24 | 7 | 11 | 6 |
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) | 910 (46.52) | 13/18 | 879 | 183 | 154 | 573 |
Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) | 7 (0.35) | 0/1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) | 5 (0.25) | - | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) | 10 (0.51) | - | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo hirundo) | 11 (0.56) | - | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) | 19 (0.97) | - | 19 | 1 | 7 | 11 |
Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) | 1 (0.05) | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Family Alcidae | ||||||
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) | 1 (0.05) | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
TOTAL | 1,956 | 48/75 | 1,833 | 425 | 519 | 1,012 |
aM/F: male/female ratio