• COP26: Beginnings of a green energy revolution for offshore wind
    Offshore wind will play a crucial role in the UK’s efforts to reach net zero, this was a key message at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow. However, installing this technology at the scale...
  • Seabird tracking project
    The RSPB’s Nature Policy Officer Sarah Hudson tells us about a recently completed exciting new project tracking four species of seabirds. The study identifies the vital at-sea foraging areas of kittiwake...
  • Kittiwake and wind vane
    This immature kittiwake had a fascination with a ship's wind vane. Did it think it was a fish?
  • Seabirds need teeth
    After 11 years of hard campaigning, at last the European Commission has launched a Plan of Action to reduce seabird bycatch (when seabirds get caught in fishing gear and drown). They committed to doing...
  • New protected seabird site formally classified
    Blog post by Isobel Mercer, RSPB Senior Policy Officer Last week, rather quietly and with no formal announcement, the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area (SPA) was officially classified...