Calonectris diomedea © Juan Bécares
BIRDS IN MARINE HABITATS
BIRDS IN MARINE HABITATS This group includes many species which have been very little studied; moreover, there are numerous threats which mean that many seabirds are endangered.
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pain is probably the European country with the highest marine diversity, since it comprises such different biogeographic regions as the Canary Islands, the Bay of Biscay, Galicia and the Mediterranean. Together these areas
cover more than one million square kilometres of water and they lie adjacent to almost 8,000 km of coastline.
© Pep Arcos
According to their geographic, oceanographic and environmental characteristics, four regions can be clearly distinguished: the Canary Islands, Galicia and the Cantabrian Sea, the Alborán Sea and the Gulf of Cádiz, and the Mediterranean.
50 BIRDS CONSERVATION STATUS IN SPAIN 2010
