Northern lapwing

They return to their nesting sites in the Balearic Islands in late autumn, a journey that can be as much as eighteen hundred miles.

The Balearic Shearwater share their island breeding ground with Yellow-legged Gull, Hermann's Tortoise, Ibiza Wall Lizard, Mediterranean Juniper, Kentish Plover, Spurge Olive, Western Swamphen, European Turtledove, Osprey, Marbled Duck, European Rabbit, Egyptian Vulture, Monarch Butterfly, Ruddy Turnstone, Serail Bunting, European Pond Turtle, Northern Lapwing, Great Capricorn Beetle, Mallorcan Midwife Toad, Green-winged Orchid, Dune Scarab, Sweet Violet, Meadow Pipit, Canary Island Palm, European Garden Dormouse, Greater Horseshoe Bat, Mediterranean Turtle, Desert Bluebells, European Stag Beetle, River Red Gum, Sweet Pea, and many, many more.

The Balearic Shearwater population is primarily threatened by interaction with the commercial fishing industry.

As mentioned, the shearwater congregates and feeds on commercial fishing discards.

And the grey herons buried their bills in the feathers of their breasts and shut their eyes and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog and their yellow throats palpitating.

Then when she had finished, the herons snapped their bills and the gulls cried, Kia, and the peewits, Peewit, and the geese hissed with their necks stretched out.

But that too signified applause.

As for the frogs, they made haste to spring with a plop into the rushes without any applause at all.

And the great herons buried their bills in the feathers of their breasts and shut their eyes and did not move, even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog and their yellow throats palpitating.

Then when she had finished, the herons snapped their bills, and the gulls cried, "'Kia!' and the peewits, 'Peewit!' and the geese hissed with their necks stretched out.

But that, too, signified applause.

As for the frogs, they made haste to spring with a plop into the rushes without any applause at all.