tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86707644707099253572024-03-29T03:29:43.389+00:00Guernsey GullsGuernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.comBlogger791125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-88316435944100805212016-04-10T21:21:00.001+01:002016-04-10T21:21:45.079+01:00Alderney Bird Observatory Up and Running - 1,500 birds ringed in first six weeks!It has been a very busy few months up in Alderney, as we have been working very hard to establish the Alderney Bird Observatory. Our warden John Horton arrived on 01st March, and the first Assistant Warden on 17th march. Since then the Obs has ringed more than 1,500 passerines; the vast majority spring migrants moving north through Alderney. The record ringing day total is 253 achieved on 09 April. Grand totals so far include almost 500 Chiffchaffs, 200 Willow Warblers, 100 Blackcaps, as well as almost 100 Firecrests and 76 Goldcrests. <br />
There is now an Alderney Bird Observatory Web Site with a daily update. Check out the link below and add it to your favourites!<br />
<a href="https://alderneybirdobservatory.org/" target="_blank">Alderney Bird Observatory</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warden John Horton rings the first bird at ABO - a Wren!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A typical net round at ABO</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Observatory & Field Study Centre inside the ruins of a Roman Fort!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three of the 90+ Firecrests ringed at ABO this spring</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Beautiful Sunrise at the ABO! All photos (c) PKV</td></tr>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-49039635477844003172015-10-10T11:38:00.003+01:002015-10-10T15:37:01.722+01:00Blog Update - Alderney Bird News<div style="text-align: justify;">
Regular visitors to this blog will realise that the postings have slowed down since August 2015. This is largely because I have moved up to Alderney, the most northern of the Channel Islands. While all my gull research projects remain active, and indeed Alderney is home to the Channel Islands' most important colony of Lesser Black-backed Gulls, there are far fewer gulls here in winter than on Guernsey.</div>
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I will still update this blog, but by the middle of September all of Alderney's breeding LBBGs had left the island, and since then I have only recorded the odd LBBG on island!</div>
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I am, however, taking many bird records each week, and have started an Alderney Birdwatching Facebook Page, where news of the Island's birds can be found.</div>
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Alderney is , in many ways, the most exciting of all the Channel Islands for recording migrants and also for its breeding seabirds, so there should be plenty of news.</div>
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Please feel free to visit the Facebook Page and join the Group if this is of interest!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alderney Birdwatching</span></div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-83270776959552537262015-09-03T12:40:00.002+01:002015-09-03T12:40:16.260+01:00Dutch Sandwich Tern Observed on Passage Through Alderney
On 27 August I saw a colour ringed <strong>Sandwich Tern</strong> in a small flock of terns resting in Braye Bay, Alderney.<strong> Yellow 17T</strong> was ringed as a chick on the <strong>Dutch Island of Texel</strong>. The project leader, Dr <strong>Mardik Leopold</strong> sent me a lot of information about his project, and this chick, which I have reproduced below, along with his very nice photo!<br />
"<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you very much for reporting this sighting! Y-17T is
indeed one of our birds. It was ringed, with 311 conspecifics, in the colony
“Utopia”, Texel, The Netherlands, on 27 June 2015, and is the fourth of this
year’s chicks to be reported from the greater Channel area. We prepared a map
(yesterday, so your bird is not on it yet) of all sighting so far. Please have
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think we are seeing a pattern unravelling where some
chicks remain in Dutch waters (for over a month after fledging), producing many
sightings, while some others turning up at some distance. These latter birds
typically disappeared from view at an early stage here and your bird fits this
pattern: see life history below. 17T was seen in the natal colony only once
after ringing, which is not much by our standards, and was not seen at all
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is wonderful when project leaders reply with such a wealth of interesting information!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandwich Tern Yellow 17T, when ringed in June 2015 as a chick on Texel, The Netherlands (c) Mardik Leopold</td></tr>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-30522378111757348662015-09-01T20:54:00.000+01:002015-09-01T20:54:58.905+01:00Alderney - Week 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Highlights from our 2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup> week on Alderney included
our first big seawatch with <strong>219 Balearic</strong> <strong>Shearwaters, one Arctic Skua and
30+ Bottle-nosed Dolphins</strong> seen in just one hour from the front garden. While
other seawatches have been very much quieter, a lone juvenile <strong>Long-tailed Skua</strong>
on 30<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> August was much appreciated!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While the gull flocks are thinning down, and I have received
my first reports of this year’s juvenile LBBGs from Portugal, I am still
managing to record decent numbers of my colour ringed birds on Alderney. This
week I’ve also seen another of <strong>Peter Rock’s LBBGs from South-west England</strong>, and
recorded a <strong>juvenile Sandwich Tern ringed in June this year on Texel, The
Netherlands</strong>. The <strong>German-ringed Black-headed Gull</strong> is also still present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, we’ve had a couple of sightings of <strong>Grey Seal</strong>, and
several very good morning walks with many migrants warblers and chats at Mannez
Quarry and Longis Pond. Today Catherine spotted a Wryneck in Mannez Quarry before I got home from work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My son, Merlin, also came up for a few days, which was wonderful! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not a bad first full week in Alderney!</span></div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-5532247378529845952015-08-25T20:46:00.001+01:002015-08-25T20:47:39.709+01:00Alderney - Week 1<div style="text-align: justify;">
Now that Catherine and I have moved to the northernmost Channel Island (Alderney) I intend to post a weekly summary of activity here each Sunday. So...yes this first one is late...and it's only half a week, as we only moved up last Wednesday. However, in the first few days in our new home at the eastern end of the island, only a few kilometres from France, we saw a pod of 30+ Bottle-nosed Dolphins, and seawatching produced c 20 Balearic Shearwaters and a single Great Skua, amongst the constantly passing Northern Gannets.</div>
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On the gull front I have thoroughly enjoyed checking out the local beaches and seeing c 30 of my Lesser Black-backed Gull chicks which I ringed this summer on nearby Burhou. I've also seen c 60 of my colour ringed adults.</div>
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I've also seen a trio of foreign-ringed Gulls - a Black-headed Gull from Lower Saxony, Germany, a Great Black-backed Gull from Cornwall and a Lesser Black-backed Gull from Swindon, England.</div>
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Finally non-seabird ornithological highlights have been a Green Sandpiper, a pair of peregrines over the garden, and lots of migrant warblers on our daily walk only a few minutes from home.</div>
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All in all Alderney is showing much early promise as a truly marvellous place for birds and other wildlife.</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-38246001949382368682015-08-14T04:42:00.000+01:002015-08-14T04:42:11.868+01:00More Guernsey LBBGs on More Beaches in PortugalYesterday there were more reports of our LBBGs from Portugal. This time three birds on Matosinhos Beach (Armando Mota) and eight together on Vagueira (Pedro Moreira). Both have small traditional Xavega fisheries!<br />
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-4793461115197464052015-08-13T11:55:00.000+01:002015-08-13T11:55:01.271+01:00Xávega Update from Torreira Beach, Portugal<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dr José Tavares reported another nine Lesser Black-backed Gulls ringed in Guernsey from Torreira Beach this morning. This makes at least 14 different Guernsey birds on that one beach in the past three days! This is just one example of how important some of the beaches in Portugal are for our nesting gulls!</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-83913774852079536502015-08-11T19:26:00.000+01:002015-08-11T19:26:01.792+01:00The Marvels of Xavega<div style="text-align: justify;">
Last winter I was lucky enough to see <strong>Xavega </strong>being practised on Costa da Caparica Beach in Portugal. This is a traditional Portuguese way for a fishing community to work together to catch fish...and the gulls love it too!<br /> What I really admire about it is that the communities of people work together to catch the fish, and like almost all people who live close to nature they have little fear of the natural world and are in fact surprisingly tolerant of gulls sharing a part of t<span class="text_exposed_show">he catch.<br /> At the heart of the current media-hyped nonsense about gulls in towns and cities is a fear which is generated by people becoming more and more divorced from, and disconnected to, nature...which is nothing short of tragedy for nature and for the health and well-being of people.<br /> Just look at these photos...the people completely ignore the gulls...no mass hysteria...just a wonderful natural spectacle to enjoy!<br /> The photos were taken today by <strong>Jose Tavares at Torreira Beach, Portugal</strong>...and he saw no fewer than <strong>eight Guernsey-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gulls</strong>! I just wish I'd been there to enjoy the wonderful spectacle again!</span> </div>
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At just over <strong>25 years old Northern Gannet F13025</strong> didn't set any longevity records for this species, but it is still a very good age for a wild bird that has such a specialist and dramatic way of life, including plunge diving for fish from up to 25 metres or so! I ringed this bird as a chick on <strong>Les Etacs, Alderney on 19 June 1990</strong> (the year Nelson Mandela was released from prison or the Simpsons aired for the first time on US TV - just to scale it), and it was found freshly dead at <strong>Sonderborg, Denmark in July this year</strong>. One can only speculate how many tens of thousands of kilometres that remarkable bird flew in its life-time!</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-43296255413747179982015-08-09T04:22:00.004+01:002015-08-09T04:22:59.445+01:00The LBBG Exodus Gets Underway!<div style="text-align: justify;">
As is typical for the time of year., it is now noticeable that the numbers of adult <strong>Lesser Black-backed Gulls</strong> in Guernsey are beginning to reduce, as the birds begin to migrate after the breeding season. The youngsters are still here, but I now have several reports of adults that are back in <strong>Portugal and even Southern Spain</strong>. For example <strong>Black 7AA6</strong> was known to be nesting on <strong>Sark</strong> this summer, but it was seen by José Manuel Mendéz at <strong>Odiel Marshes, Cadiz, Southern Spain</strong> on 4th August.</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-78654509801199745052015-08-07T08:51:00.002+01:002015-08-07T08:51:49.661+01:00Super Summer Days!<div style="text-align: justify;">
Yesterday Catherine, Vic and I popped over to Jethou to dismantle the seabird camera until next season. The camera, which Catherine organised, and she and Vic trained on a Shag nest this year, proved to be one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of this year's seabird season! Let's hope for next year we can provide a live streaming camera!</div>
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Then we switched over to Herm for a quick swim on one of the finest beaches in Europe (Shell Beach), enjoying a passage party of 20+ Common Terns feeding as we swam.</div>
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This morning it was back to more mundane fare....checking Chouet and Pembroke Beaches. The highlights were another observation of the 2nd calendar year <strong>Yellow-legged Gull</strong> that we colour ringed at Chouet Landfill his May...and the first of the fledged <strong>Lesser Black-backed Gull</strong> chicks from <strong>Burhou</strong> - it's almost impossible not to get daily seabird highlights at this time of year!</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-65941895750526667612015-08-05T09:02:00.002+01:002015-08-05T09:02:28.817+01:00Gulls Gather as Breeding Season Draws to a Close.<div style="text-align: justify;">
I simply love this time of year...on one of our beaches this morning I watched a regular post breeding flock of more than 1,000 gulls...the vast majority were Herring Gulls. Within weeks some of these birds will be in western France, where they will stay until Christmas, before returning to claim their nesting territories again.<br /> As they leave the beaches will host gulls from much further north, as they migrate from northern Europe to Iberia and North-western Africa.<br /> Every day is new and different...and it's such a privilege just to enjoy this wonderful spectacle on this small island!</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-29805013133493661712015-08-04T08:36:00.001+01:002015-08-04T08:36:01.639+01:00Young Gulls on the Beaches!It was another superb early morning outing to the beaches at Chouet and Pembroke. Lots of colour ringed gulls, including juveniles for all three breeding species...I just really love this time of year!<br />
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-84403228888356652472015-08-03T08:16:00.000+01:002015-08-03T08:16:15.139+01:00Ant-Fest!<div style="text-align: justify;">
It's that time of year again, and this late summer the hatching of flying ants is again very good. As a result the gulls are feasting. It's always wonderful to watch gulls feeding on ants in mid-air in large swirling cauldons. This morning the gulls were all over the Common feasting on ants. Unfortunately a main road runs adjacent to the common and many gulls were also taking dead ants from the road...with the inevitable result that there was at least one casualty. Some drivers are so oblivious or divorced from the natural world that they don't even slow down! To me it's a wonderful spectacle of our natural world...and yet some drivers don't even notice it!</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-28727870283968857952015-08-01T17:33:00.002+01:002015-08-01T17:33:39.643+01:00Immature Lesser Black-backed Gulls summering in Iberia<div style="text-align: justify;">
Although a minority of our Lesser Black-backed Gulls born and reared in the Bailiwick do return back north as far as their natal colonies in their first summers, the majority stay south in Iberia, where they have wintered. It is always a real pleasure for me to hear about these gulls from the growing number of local birders in Spain and Portugal who not only take the time and trouble to report the colour rings, but very often send me wonderful photos of the birds.</div>
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Manuel Petiz is one such birder who regularly sends me gull reports and photos from the beaches Portugal's west coast.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(C) Manuel Petiz</td></tr>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-201550869884082132015-08-01T09:46:00.001+01:002015-08-01T09:46:20.633+01:00Bellegreve Mediterranean Gull Roost Reaches 44 birds today<div style="text-align: justify;">
Viewing conditions at Bellegreve Bay were perfect at high tide this morning, with a very calm sea and beautiful early morning light. The <strong>Mediterranean Gull</strong> roost contained at least <strong>44 birds</strong> today - numbers appear to be slowly increasing by the day!</div>
Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-34176311988272311882015-07-31T08:33:00.001+01:002015-07-31T08:33:30.175+01:00The Best Med Gull Roost so Far!<div style="text-align: justify;">
The high tide roost at Bulwer Avenue was even more impressive this morning with at least <strong>37 Mediterranean Gulls</strong> and <strong>11 Sandwich Terns</strong>. Amongst the Med Gulls were <strong>three Belgian and one French-ringed birds</strong>, and one of the <strong>Sandwich Terns</strong> was also colour ringed - a<strong> Dutch</strong> bird I think.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandwich Term Lime Green N04 from The Netherlands</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Med Gull Green RU18 from Noirmoutier Island, Vendee, France</td></tr>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-86666533042383541562015-07-30T17:52:00.001+01:002015-07-30T17:52:21.930+01:00Another Foreign-ringed Mediterranean Gull in Guernsey<div style="text-align: justify;">
A quick check of the high tide roost at Bellegreve Bay this morning resulted in a count of c <strong>30 Mediterranean Gulls</strong>, including a French-ringed bird. </div>
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With Camille Duponcheel's usual stunning efficiency I already have the details for <strong>Med Gull Green RU18</strong>, seen in Bellegreve Bay this morning. It was ringed as a chick on<strong> Noirmoutier Island, Vendee, France</strong> in June 2014. It was subsequently seen in <strong>Devon, England</strong> that autumn, before being seen in <strong>Jersey</strong> earlier this month.</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-81393229335062050362015-07-27T09:09:00.000+01:002015-07-27T09:09:10.057+01:00First Adult LBBG reaches IberiaWith my first colour ringed adult LBBGs being seen in NW France a few days back, it was only a matter of time before the first autumn migrant reached<strong> Iberia</strong>. Last night Manuel Petiz sent me news and a very nice photo of <strong>Black 2AL6</strong> on the beach at <strong>Espinho, Portugal on 24th July</strong>. This adult was known to be in Guernsey this summer. Some of our adult LBBGs really don't hang around after the end of the breeding season!<br />
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-46928911539688231752015-07-26T17:04:00.002+01:002015-07-26T17:04:20.367+01:00Weather for Gulls?!For ducks maybe...but I don't think the gulls have been appreciating the very wet weekend here in the Channel Islands. The very nice photos below show one of my cr Herring Gulls, which is a regular in Jersey...looks a bit forlorn doesn't it...waiting (like us!) for the sun to shine again?!<br />
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-67937278413425834792015-07-25T08:30:00.000+01:002015-07-25T08:30:27.343+01:00The end of the Breeding Season for Gulls With the end of the breeding season approaching for most of the island's gulls, many of the adults and the first of the juveniles are gathering on the beaches. My first colour ringed adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls are already in the Bay of Biscay, and within days now I expect reports from Northern Spain. The migration is very spread out though, with some of the birds remaining here until late August/early September. <br />
I've already seen juvenile Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls n the beaches, and numbers should now grow through the rest of July and into August...before many adult Herring Gulls move south-west to the sandy beaches of western France, where they will moult.<br />
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<br />Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-80904673148749447072015-07-24T15:38:00.002+01:002015-07-24T15:38:14.624+01:00Hungarian and Belgian Mediterranean Gulls in Guernsey<div style="text-align: justify;">
A quick look at the high tide roost in Bellegreve Bay today resulted in a count of <strong>26 Mediterranean Gulls</strong>, including three colour-ringed bird - <strong>two from Belgium and one from Hungary</strong>. At least three of the gulls carried only a metal ring, and one of these was read (another <strong>Belgian bird</strong>). The message is clear...if you want to record some interesting gull movements no other species has such a high percentage of colour-ringed birds as Mediterranean Gulls...and they have a really interesting and diverse migration/dispersal strategy!</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-4747669662604954512015-07-24T10:07:00.000+01:002015-07-24T10:07:45.652+01:00Burhou's Amazing Storm Petrel PopulationJenni from AWT has kindly sent a few photos from last weekend's seabird monitoring on Burhou. The Storm Petrel work requires working through the night, as these small ocean wanderers only come ashore after dark. It's hard to overstate just how important this survey work is because we don't really know much about the population on Burhou - other than it is significantly larger than we thought...and we don't really know how to best conserve and protect the petrels yet! The size of Swallows these tiny seabirds can ride out the fiercest storms and gales that Mother Nature can throw at them. It's another stunning example of just how amazing our natural world is!<br />
Over two nights we caught 536 different Storm petrels, including 147 birds that had been ringed in previous years (thus giving even more valuable data). Amongst the ringed birds there were also a few British and French-ringed petrels. All in all it was a very valuable short field trip.<br />
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-24316583439503468422015-07-23T08:33:00.003+01:002015-07-23T08:33:26.431+01:00358 Gull Chicks Colour Ringed This Year<div style="text-align: justify;">
Given that the <strong>National Seabird Ce</strong>nsus was the top priority this year, and given all the other distractions and priorities that spread through my summer, I am actually very pleased to end the season with another <strong>358 gull chicks</strong> colour ringed. Ironically it was a productive season for <strong>Great Black-backed Gulls</strong>, but the total number of chicks ringed was only <strong>29</strong>. We only sampled some of the <strong>Herring Gull</strong> colonies to ring <strong>82 chicks</strong> this year. </div>
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The one highlight really was the total of <strong>247 Lesser Black-backed Gull</strong> chicks ringed, as this is my principal study species, and this total reflects where my limited effort could be expended this season. As ever I am most grateful to the small number of people who help with this important work each year.</div>
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Guernsey Gullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154234347540111074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670764470709925357.post-84909187824359706192015-07-22T18:15:00.000+01:002015-07-22T18:15:01.411+01:00The Seabird Season - Saving the Best Until the Last!<div style="text-align: justify;">
The Seabird Season was such hard work this year, with the emphasis on the National Seabird census...the first in 15 years...so I was determined to enjoy the last monitoring trip of the season on Burhou. In many ways we managed to save the best until last. Here's a few more photos...all courtesy of Jenni and Holly of AWT (both of whom were excellent at finding gull chicks in the bracken!)</div>
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Ringing LBBG and HG chicks on Burhou (c) Jenni Godber</div>
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