Jim Bird blog
More than 1,000 seabirds were ringed on the Shiants in the first week of July by members of the Sule Skerry Ringing Group, who were visting the islands as part of a two week visit to try and discover where Leach’s Petrels are breeding in the Western Isles. Spectacular numbers of Razorbills have been caught, with 500 birds being ringed; only a few thousand of these handsome birds are ringed every year in the British Isles. Several of the ringers have scars to prove it! Razorbills and the other auk species are bringing little food to their chicks and it looks to be a poor breeding season. This seems to be the same for the Great Skuas; many of which seem to have failed to breed.
8/7/06 Jim Lennon
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