The Guillemot Campaign - Skomer, Wales

The NCCT are supporting the work of Tim Birkhead FRS, a British ornithologist and Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield who has been carrying research in the guillemot population in Skomer for the last 10 years.

Over the last fifty years around half the world’s seabirds have been lost as a result of pollution, overfishing and climate change. Guillemots have been an important barometer for the health of the ocean. His study has already shown how climate change has affected breeding habits, with the birds now breeding two weeks earlier than they did in the 1970s. Continuation of this work is vital to ensure uninterrupted collection of data to monitor environmental changes through guillemots’ behaviour. This work will hopefully lead to identifying and tackling threats to the ocean at a much earlier stage.

For more details of this project please visit Guillemots Skomer.