‘Some of the most remarkable creatures on the planet’ This summer a team from the RSPB travelled to North Rona – an uninhabited island about 44 miles north of Lewis – to survey one of Scotland’s most incredible birds: Leach’s Storm Petrel. 🌊 These remarkable seabirds are only the size of a Starling and yet they travel hundreds of kilometres across the open sea in search of food, going as far as 500km from their nesting burrows. 🕳️ We know these birds are in decline but to improve our understan

The Westland petrel/tāiko is one tough seabird! In New Zealand, a country where 90% of seabirds are threatened, this feisty species is still holding its ground on the West Coast. They live for decades, raise one chick a year and have a breeding success rate of 70% (chick that survives through fledging). However, after decades of monitoring and these petrels facing threats, the colony is only just maintaining its numbers... Read more here: https://bit.ly/41WLqPP *Birds are handled only twice per