• Counting seabirds: start at 1 and keep going
    Ever wonder how the thousands of seabirds that visit our coasts each summer are counted? Doug Gilbert, Head of Reserves Ecology, gives us some insight. Counting seabirds: Start at 1 and keep going...
  • The Seabird Monitoring Programme is changing
    From this month, the Seabird Monitoring Programme (SMP) will be changing in how it’s being run. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) has formed a partnership with the BTO and RSPB, to run this...
  • Linking foraging and breeding strategies in tropical seabirds
    As part of our research collaboration with the RSPB we challenged the widespread view that tropical seabirds forage more unpredictably than temperate and polar species, and we tested the hypothesis that...
  • GPS tracking reveals new insights into the foraging areas of the Atlantic’s smallest seabird
    Blog by Dr Mark Bolton, Principal Conservation Scientist on his new paper published today. The sparrow-sized European storm petrel is the smallest seabird in the Atlantic, nesting only on the most remote...
  • 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...