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.

Sandwich tern

Lesser crested tern

Little tern

Gull-billed tern

Caspian tern

Balearic shearwater