Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly nests of Manx shearwater ("Puffinus puffinus"). Permission is needed from Trinity House to land on the island and only two botanists are known to have visited. The first, J. E. Lousley, in 1957, only recorded the invasive Hottentot fig ("Carpobrotus edulis"). Thirty years later, in 1987, Rosemary Parslow found much of the ground between the buildings and the cliff edge was covered in a carpet of purple dewplant ("Disphyma crassifolium") and Hottentot fig. She also recorded a small number of the expected coastal species. They were sea spleenwort ("Asplenium marinum"), bird's–foot trefoil ("Lotus corniculatus"), spear–leaved orache ("Atriplex prostrata"), sea beet
Galápagos shearwater Galápagos shearwater The Galápagos shearwater ("Puffinus subalaris") is a small shearwater. Until recently it was considered to be a subspecies of Audubon's shearwater, but it is actually one of two members of a very ancient lineage of the small "Puffinus" species, the other being, as indicated by mtDNA cytochrome "b" sequence data, the Christmas shearwater. It is an endemic breeder of the Galápagos Islands, and is largely sedentary, although individuals are commonly seen as far as the Oaxacan coast of Mexico. The Galápagos shearwater has dark brown upperparts, undertail and underwing flight feathers, the rest of the underparts plumage being