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title: "Balearic Shearwater"
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# Balearic Shearwater

Balearic Shearwater *Puffinus mauretanicus  -*globally[Critically Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/balearic-shearwater-puffinus-mauretanicus/text)

  ![Anju Rajesh Balearic Shearwater pen ink Pep Arcos](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Balearic/Anju_Rajesh_Balearic_Shearwater_pen__ink_Pep_Arcos.jpg)

 *Balearic Shearwater by Anju Rajesh, pen & ink, after a photograph by Pep Arcos*

 ![Catarina Vitorino Balearic Shearwater Mixed media Pep Arcos](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Balearic/Catarina_Vitorino_Balearic_Shearwater_Mixed_media_Pep_Arcos.jpg)

 *Balearic Shearwater by Catarina Vitorino, mixed media, after a photograph by Pep Arcos*

 ![Birgit Meyer Balearic Shearwater Pep Arcos](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Balearic/Birgit_Meyer_Balearic_Shearwater_Pep_Arcos.jpg) 

 *Balearic Shearwater by Birgit Meyer, after a photograph by Pep Arcos*

 *![Ellyn Lentz Balearic Shearwater paper collage Fly like the petrel til Im free Pep Arcos](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Balearic/Ellyn_Lentz_Balearic_Shearwater_paper_collage_Fly_like_the_petrel_til_Im_free_Pep_Arcos.jpeg)*

 *"Fly like the petrel until I'm free", Balearic Shearwater paper collage by Ellyn Lentz, after a photograph by Pep Arcos*

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 * Balearic Shearwater by Georgia Feild, after a photograph by Pep Arcos*

  ![Helen Worthington Balearic Shearwater Pep Arcos](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Balearic/Helen_Worthington_Balearic_Shearwater_Pep_Arcos.jpg)

 *Balearic Shearwater by Helen Worthington, *after a photograph by Pep Arcos**

 *Posted 07 March 2021*