Annet, Isles of Scilly have nationally important breeding populations. The storm–petrel breeds amongst the boulders of the more stable storm beaches. The largest population of Manx shearwater ("Puffinus puffinus") in the islands breed here and the other annual breeding species are puffin ("Fratercula arctica"), greater black-backed gull ("Larus marinus"), razorbill ("Alca torda"), kittiwake ("Rissa tridactyla"), fulmar ("Fulmarus glacialis"), herring gull ("L. argentatus") and shag ("P. aristotelis"). Common tern ("Sterna hirundo") breed on the island most years as do cormorant ("Phalacrocorax carbo") and very rarely Arctic tern ("S. paradisaea"). Annet has long had a reputation for being the best island for breeding birds and Jessie
Muttonbirding on 36 islands, known as the Titi or Muttonbird Islands, around Rakiura (Stewart Island), is managed entirely by Rakiura Māori. There is some evidence that this harvest has been occurring since at least the 17th century. Muttonbird may refer to various seabirds, particularly petrels in the genus "Puffinus", called shearwaters, where the young birds are harvested for food and oil by being extracted by hand from the nesting burrows before they fledge. Some species are: Muttonbirding Muttonbirding is the seasonal harvesting of the chicks of petrels, especially shearwater species, for food, oil and feathers by recreational or commercial hunters. Such