Animals in Wales: Half the World's Shearwaters and a Kite Comeback

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1. 0:00HALF THE WORLD'S SHEARWATERS. Half the world's Manx shearwaters nest in Wales. Stay for the comeback bird.
2. 0:05Atlantic Puffin. On Skomer, forty thousand puffins walk across the path. Boats from Martin's Haven sell out by 8 am.
3. 0:11Northern Gannet. Grassholm, eleven kilometres out, is white with 36,000 pairs of gannets. The third-largest colony on Earth.
4. 0:18Grey Seal. Ramsey Island in Wales makes several hundred grey seal pups each autumn. Watch from the cliffs, never go down.
5. 0:25Bottlenose Dolphin. Cardigan Bay holds the UK's biggest resident bottlenose population. New Quay's harbour wall needs no boat.
6. 0:30Harbor Porpoise. At Strumble Head, porpoises feed in dozens on the running tide.
7. 0:34Red Kite. Red kites in Wales fell to a few pairs in the 1930s. Now up to 600 swarm Gigrin Farm at 2 pm.

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