• Decline of Leach’s Storm Petrels in the north-east Atlantic
    A new open access scientific paper has been published in The Seabird Group ’s journal, Seabird, describing surveys of the biggest Leach’s storm petrel colonies in the north-east Atlantic. Conservation...
  • Storm-petrels – Malta leads seabird research
    Researchers from the EU LIFE+ Malta Seabird Project have confirmed that storm petrels (known locally as Kanġu ta’ Filfla), small seabirds nesting on the island of Filfla, have been successfully tracked...
  • Tracking elusive Manx shearwaters on the west coast of Ireland
    Over the last decade, deploying small tracking devices on seabirds has been able to provide us with astonishing insights into their offshore life. Today’s blog has been written by Conservation Scientist...
  • Seeing in the dark – testing infra-red filming to census storm petrels
    Blog by Dr Allan Perkins , Senior Conservation Scientist, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Working for the RSPB’s Centre for Conservation Science has given me some amazing experiences over the...
  • Matsudaira's storm-petrels visit the Chagos Islands
    I don't think we've brought you any news on our blogs before from the tiny islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory, or Chagos Archipelago, some 400 miles south of the Maldives. This UK Overseas...