Guide of Seabirds in the Mediterranean & adjacent Seas

This Guide includes all seabird species:

  • breeding in the Mediterranean Sea and adjacent coasts (Atlantic Ocean till Portugal and Morocco, Black Sea);
  • capable of large movements (several hundred kilometres);
  • relying mainly on the marine environment during their life cycle.

You are invited to complete the interactive maps by sending us any documented evidence of missing nesting sites.

Yelkouan shearwater

Scopoli’s shearwater

Balearic shearwater

Mediterranean storm petrel

Mediterranean shag

Great cormorant

Audouin’s gull

Yellow-legged gull

Black-headed gull

Mediterranean gull

Slender-billed gull

Common tern

Sandwich tern

Lesser crested tern

Little tern

Gull-billed tern

Caspian tern

Other species present (but not commonly breeding) in the Mediterranean and adjacent Seas: