Storm Petrel

The smallest of the petrel family and the UK’s smallest seabird, Storm petrels will typically nest in boulder screes, walls, under large boulders or even in burrows like the Manx shearwater. In Pembrokeshire they nest on Skomer, Ramsey and Skokholm islands; Skokholm has 2000 pairs, the largest population in Wales. Like the shearwater, to whom they are related, they leave the islands at dawn and return after dark, and they visit the islands just to breed.