Bird migration as they ride the "roaring forties" outside the breeding season. The tubenoses spread widely over large areas of open ocean, but congregate when food becomes available. Many are also among the longest-distance migrants; sooty shearwaters "Puffinus griseus" nesting on the Falkland Islands migrate between the breeding colony and the North Atlantic Ocean off Norway. Some Manx shearwaters "Puffinus puffinus" do this same journey in reverse. As they are long-lived birds, they may cover enormous distances during their lives; one record-breaking Manx shearwater is calculated to have flown 8 million km (5 million miles) during its over-50 year lifespan. Some large
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