St Levan common species such as northern gannet ("Morus bassanus"), Manx shearwater ("Puffinus puffinus"), common guillemot, ("Uria aalge") and razorbill ("Alca torda"), as well as rarer birds such as Balearic shearwater ("Puffinus mauretanicus") and Cory's shearwater ("Calonectris borealis"). The headland of Tol-pedn (or Gwennap Head) is favoured by birdwatchers and many travel the length and breadth of Britain to track rare seabirds. Some of the butterflies that can be found on the coast include grayling ("Hipparchia semele"), silver-studded blue ("Plebejus argus"), small pearl-bordered fritillary ("Boloria selene") and wall ("Lasiommata megera"). There is also a day-flying moth, the thrift clearwing ("Synansphecia muscaeformis"); the
Gwennap Head appropriate time of the year, can see rare animals such as chough ("Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax"), great shearwater ("Puffinus gravis"), basking shark and ocean sunfish ("Mola mola"). Tol Pedn was once known as Land’s End, and in the early 19th century was usually called St Leven’s Land’s End in order to distinguish it from the present day Land’s End, which was then called Sennen Land’s End and Cape Cornwall which has also been known as Land's End. It would seem that, in the past Tol-pedn was considered to be a larger area, than what is today considered to be the headland of