02 Jul 2024
NatureScot and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) have completed a count of burrows on the Isle of May National Nature Reserve (NNR) in the Firth of Forth, a protected and internationally important habitat for seabirds. Based on their all-island count this summer, scientists estimate there are around 52,000 occupied puffin burrows, compared […]
07 Aug 2018
The fortunes of seabirds around the UK at present are prompting different coverage. In two articles the worrying nature of sea bird populations off Shetland is highlighted whilst Defra announced new protection for Yorkshire’s seabird colonies. Changes to water temperature, plankton and sand eel populations are having very significant effects on different seabird colonies. […]
25 May 2018
Puffin numbers on the Farne Islands, Northumberland may have fallen by an average of 12 percent since the last census. Grim news for the struggling seabird according to early figures in the Natural Trust five-yearly census. Initial numbers suggest the population has fallen by up to 42 per cent on one of the islands – […]