Today saw one of our annual seabird ringing trips to Swona
and my first ringing session of the year.
The team consisted of Colin, Brian, Stan, Alison and me and
the aim was to retrieve and deploy geolocators as well as ringing.
We were able to retrieve five geolocators from Razorbills
who along with another 10 adults were fitted with new geolocators. The aim is
to fit the geolocators and retrieve them a year later however the retrieved
geolocators on this trip all came from birds that had them fitted two years ago
so it will be interesting to see if the data can be retrieved and what it shows
us.
In terms of ringing, we ringed Great Black-backed Gull - three
chicks, Razorbill - three adults and 15 chicks plus an additional 12 retraps,
Puffin – three adults and Shag two adults and 14 chicks. The Shags were also
colour ringed.
Eight pairs of Great Skuas (Bonxies) were seen but there was
no sign of any breeding terns this year.
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