. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . e to the erosion which has taken place onthe island that Montana Clara is the favourite breedingstation in the Archipelago of two of the most interestingof the Tubinares—the Madeiran Allied Shearwaterand Bulwers Petrel. Nowhere is. there any sand onthe shore, and at low tide the rocks abound in deeppools ; it is therefore an ideal hunting-ground for theBlack Oystercatcher. Montana Clara is a real desertisland, entirely uninhabited by man, visited by hundredsof
. The Canary Islands : their history, natural history and scenery : an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago . e to the erosion which has taken place onthe island that Montana Clara is the favourite breedingstation in the Archipelago of two of the most interestingof the Tubinares—the Madeiran Allied Shearwaterand Bulwers Petrel. Nowhere is. there any sand onthe shore, and at low tide the rocks abound in deeppools ; it is therefore an ideal hunting-ground for theBlack Oystercatcher. Montana Clara is a real desertisland, entirely uninhabited by man, visited by hundredsof Petrels and Shearwaters in the breeding season, and,as will be seen hereafter, those are by no means theonly interesting birds to be found upon it. A surprisewas in store for me which even the most sanguine ofornithologists could not have hoped for. The night of the 7th of June was one of the weirdestI have ever spent; sleep was almost impossible, asanyone who has spent a first night on a Petrelsbreeding-ground will readily understand. From 8 dawn the cries of the birds never ceased—some fF&rJkz 11 •g-.^rs^». The Home of Meade-Waldos Black Oystercatcher.
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