The Manx Shearwater birds were migrating to Argentina where they spend the winter when they were blown back to shore by strong wind and rain. More than 400 of the birds were blown into Newgale in Pembrokeshire, Wales on the same day. The birds which live in the cliff face, do not usually take off from the land, instead they fall off the cliffs and fly away, so once they were blown off course they were stranded.
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