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
Bird extinction which results to the downfall of extinction. The most common disease affecting birds is Salmonellosis, which originates from the Latin name of salmonella. Infected birds pass bacteria in their fecal droppings. Other birds then become ill when they eat food contaminated by the droppings. Bird extinction Out of the approximately 10,400 known bird species, about 1,300 (13%) are classified as threatened with extinction, 9% as near threatened and of the remaining 78% many populations are declining. There is a general consensus among scientists who study these trends that if human impact on the environment continues as it has one-third of