Manx shearwater skull (Puffinus puffinus) This is a nice specimen

This is a nice specimen from an unusual species

This item is made of plaited string painted on the front with natural pigments and fringed with nassa shells

the teeth are flattened for crushing hard shells

often using fine sand

Manx shearwater skull (Puffinus puffinus) This is a nice specimenThis is a lovely skull of the Manx shearwater Manx shearwater skull Puffinus puffinus. The Manx shearwater is a medium sized shearwater that nests in burrows on the Western coasts of the UK. Every year, the shearwaters complete a migration of more than 10,000km to the waters off Southern Brazil and Argentina. These are long lived birds with a life span of over 55 years although many of the juvenile die in their first long migration. This skull was