Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea
Cory's
Shearwater is a rare passage migrant and summer visitor off the Dorset coast.
The
first Dorset rcords were of 3 flying past Portland Bill on 19th April 1965 and
not recorded again until 1970 but since 69 bird have occured in 17 years up till
1999.
Below table shows the totals for the each month of occurences
in the years stated.
| | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept |
| 1965-1978 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983-1999 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 26 | 2 |
| 2000-2006 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |