From the introduction: At around midday on 6th June 2019, in warm, bright conditions, we were watching a small Kittiwake colony on the west coast of Lundy, Devon. Our attention was drawn to an adult Herring Gull Larus argentatus on the rocks below with a live Common Guillemot Uria aalge chick
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Shearwaters are among the greatest travellers on earth, living their elusive lives mostly far out at sea, but constrained to breed in dense colonies on islands away from land-based predators. This article describes how recent advances in miniature bio-logging technology and modern analytical techniques have enabled the secrets of the shearwater’s world to become accessible to scientific understanding. From fundamental questions in life-history theory, distribution patterns, and navigation, to applications in the conservation of critically endangered species, aspects of the shearwater’s world (including Manx Puffinus puffinus, Balearic P. mauretanicus and Scopoli’s Calonectris diomedea) are revealed through the lens of one research group combining modern bio-telemetry, experiment, and classical field study.
