tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32733464707814423242024-03-14T06:50:30.338+00:00RockablogWorking to protect one of Europe's most important Tern colonies, on Ireland's east coast.Brian Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08367042338202378020noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-25399108262251037312019-08-15T12:48:00.000+01:002019-08-15T12:48:09.186+01:00Dalkey islands: Volunteers helping to 'tern' things around<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
tern season on the Dalkey islands is wrapping up, and what a few months it has
been! The small, but tenacious Arctic Tern colony <b>(29 pairs), have succeeded in
raising 20 chicks, including 7 on Dalkey Island itself, the first ever
fledglings from the island!</b> This is an amazing result, and one which all at
BirdWatch Ireland and our funders, the EU Life Project and Dún Laoghaire –
Rathdown County Council, are absolutely thrilled about, (see <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/removal-of-rat-colony-from-dalkey-island-makes-room-for-rare-bird-1.3974486" target="_blank">here</a> in the Irish Times for more info).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On top of this, there were signs and sightings of Rock
Pipit, Shelduck, Pied Wagtail and Oystercatcher chicks, along with many healthy
and noisy Herring, Lesser Black – backed and Great Black – backed gull
fledglings. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">But today, as we wrap up, it is the volunteers and members
of the community who helped and participated to an extraordinary degree over
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<br />Last winter, BirdWatch Ireland with guidance from Karen
Varnham of the RSPB, began working on removing Brown Rats (<i>Rattus norvegicus</i>),
from the islands. <b>Brown rats are an invasive species and have a devastating
impact on seabird colonies when present</b>, (see <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/28/seabirds-treble-on-lundy-after-island-is-declared-rat-free" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/09/south-georgia-declared-rat-free-centuries-rodent-devastation" target="_blank">here</a> for more info). Rat
control is definitely one of the least glamourous tasks anyone could take on! Between
handling bait stations and searching for signs of rat in the field, it calls
for a strong stomach (and a lot of hand sanitiser!). </div>
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Who would have thought that we could find anyone
enthusiastic enough to join us in the middle of an Irish winter to help carry
out such work? And yet, <b>along came Chris Johnson and Shelly Biswell. </b>Over the
course of the three and a bit months, <b>they were instrumental to the success of
the baiting project, and their indefatigable cheerfulness was a god send!</b></div>
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As tern numbers on the island began to grow, <b>we were
delighted to welcome three new volunteers to the project. Tom Murphy, Sandra
Jordan and James Tallon</b> braved thistles, nettles and dive - bombing Arctic
Terns as we censused nests and chick numbers on the islands. <b>From the get-go,
all three proved exceptionally able at spotting the well camouflaged chicks and
were unbelievably enthusiastic even when under fire from angry tern parents!</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From left to right: Tom, James and Sandra searching the thistles and nest boxes for chicks. </span></div>
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Three species of gull also breed on the island; Herring
Gull, Great Black – backed Gull and Lesser Black – backed Gull. <b>We were lucky
enough to have Graham Prole (aka ‘The Gull King’) of the Irish Midlands Ringing
Group come out to Dalkey Island on several occasions to colour ring gull
chicks. </b><br />
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This colour ringing project is fascinating! It is looking at how gulls
use urban and more natural spaces such as Dalkey Island, whether there are
population exchanges between these two habitat types and the longevity of gulls
living in each environment. <b>It is amazing and timely work, and we desperately
need more people like Graham Prole who actively champion these stunning birds!</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Working as a warden in Dalkey is not all about the birds, as
the islands are rich in both history and ecology. For instance, Dalkey Island
was used by the Vikings to hold slaves, while Muglins Island, east of Dalkey
Island has the bodies of two pirates buried under the lighthouse. Grey seals
are a regular sight just off - shore, the small herd of feral goats
(descendants of those put over for the soldiers during the Napoleonic war), can
be frequently seen (and more frequently smelt), and the rocky shore is home to
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The guided walks on Dalkey Island, were a chance to showcase
this diversity and history. <b>Des Burke – Kennedy of Dalkey Tidy Towns (DTT) came
along to the first walk of the season, iPhone in hand and photographed and
promoted the events. </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Des has also been instrumental in getting the word out about
the ecological reasons dogs should not be present on the islands </b>and organised
a talk I gave on the Dalkey Tern Project in the Dalkey Heritage Centre. All this, while
working tirelessly with other DTT volunteers to further beautify this idyllic
town and in the process uncovering an EIRE sign from the second world war above
the White Rock swim point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tern Watch events were another method we used to get the
word out about the project, and they ran every Tuesday from June to July.
During these<b> Fiona Sayhoun, a veterinary student in UCD, had a sixth sense for
finding chicks on the island to show curious passers-by.</b></span><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This year as in previous years, the <b>South Dublin and Wicklow BirdWatch Ireland branches were out during the month of July
showing people both the tern colony and surrounding wildlife. </b>They are a
fantastic bunch, and if you get a chance, I’d recommend joining them during the
monthly events and meetings they host. </span></div>
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at the end of the breeding season at dusk, prior to their migrations south, and
it truly is a phenomenal sight. See the South Dublin BirdWatch Ireland <a href="http://www.southdublinbirds.com/events/events.php" target="_blank">website</a>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One aspect of the job that is great fun is island hopping.
The tern colony is spread over three islands; Maiden Rock, Lamb Island and
Dalkey Island. <b>Ken, Johnny and David Cunningham were lifesavers </b>(in fact
sometimes literally as a kayaker last year can attest to) <b>and dropped us to all
three islands free of charge during the breeding season. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This unbelievable
generosity is testament to the decency of the Cunningham brothers and the
respect which they have for their natural heritage</b>. Also, if you want to learn
about the history of the area, take a boat trip with Ken. One of the highlights
of my days was listening to him fill in tourists on the local history. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Lastly, a massive thank you to everyone who came to the
events! </b>This has been an amazing season and a huge part of that has been down
to the people who have taken the time to come and witness the wildlife and
learn about the history in and around the Dalkey islands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We will be continuing our rat control work over the winter
in preparation for next season. <b>If you are interested in volunteering with the
Dalkey Tern Conservation Project over the winter or summer months, please don’t
hesitate to contact me, Tara Adcock, at <a href="mailto:tadcock@birdwatchireland.ie">tadcock@birdwatchireland.ie</a>. </b></span></div>
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talk on the wildlife and conservation of the Dalkey islands will also take
place on August 20<sup>th</sup> at 7pm in the Lexington Library in Dún
Laoghaire. So, if you want to find out even more, why not come along!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Tara Adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262574072413177535noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-17726087738001396922019-08-06T10:53:00.000+01:002019-08-06T11:03:38.382+01:00Rockabill Nest Census Results 2019<br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">One of the most important numbers for any breeding seabird colony is the number of nests present that year. As the season gets
closer to an end we have now complied our final nest numbers. As mentioned in
previous blogs, we had an initial nest census on the 7<sup>th</sup> to the 10<sup>th</sup>
of June and then a second on the 16<sup>th</sup> to he 18<sup>th</sup> of June
where additional nests were added into our tallies. </span></div>
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pairs of Black Guillemot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pairs of Black-Legged Kittiwakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Common Tern pairs, with 4,560 eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Roseate Tern pairs, with 698 nesting in boxes, and 866 with open nests, and
2,807 eggs laid on the island as of the 18<sup>th</sup> of June.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Boy have we been busy here on Rockabill. Lots of our chicks
have become big so quickly. Most chicks that were the first to hatch have
started flying around the island and some have even fledged right in front of
us. During the provisional feeding studies, we saw the Roseate chicks come out
of their nest boxes and test out their wings. Both Common and Roseate chicks
could be seen hopping up onto rocks or nest boxes and flapping their wings to
get a bit of lift. Of course, this means a lot more running around for the
wardens. It has become a bit more difficult to collect our biometrics data when
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has been a treat to watch them take off, although we wardens are beginning to
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Now that they are getting big enough to fledge, we had to
step up our ringing game. On the 1<sup>st</sup> of July we were joined by Dr
Stephen Newton and Brian Burke of BirdWatch and previous Rockabill wardens
Caroline McKeon, Shane Somers and Irene N<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">í </span>Sh<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ú</span>illeabhán to help us carry out
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Every tern chick is ringed before it leaves Rockabill so we
had a lot of work to do! Whilst we have been ringing all the chicks that have
hatched in our study areas, this was a tiny portion of the rest of the population
by comparison. We spent four days going around the island and catching as many
birds as we could that were big enough to be ringed. Common and Arctic Tern
chicks are ringed with the standard BTO rings while Roseate Terns are ringed
with a specialised 4-digit code. In previous years this code has been made up
of letters and numbers but this year our roseate rings do not have numbers.
This has led to a lot of fun with naming certain chicks. To date we have gotten
BABE, BABY, BALE, BAKE, BAND, BANK, BART, BARB, BEAN, BEAT, BETH, BERT and so
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After the ringing blitz we welcomed a new warden, Aude
Boutet. Aude is a very skilled seabird ecologist from Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Aude has spent the past few years working on various research projects around
the world. She joins us after completing a stint researching the ecology of
Common and Brunnich’s Guillemots with the British Antarctic Survey. We are
very lucky to have her with us (more importantly we’re happy to have another
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Alongside monitoring our tern babies, we have also been
keeping an eye on the breeding Kittiwakes and Black Guillemots. Earlier this
month we recaptured and attached geo-locators to some of the adult Kittiwakes.
These geo-locators will be removed next year when adults return to Rockabill
and will provide valuable information on the movements of Kittiwakes between
the breeding seasons. Twelve adults that were ringed on Rockabill as chicks
were recaptured for this study. Of the twelve, most were between 4 and 10 years
old and the oldest two were 14 and 17 years old.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After these geo locators were attached, it was time to start
ringing the Kittiwake and Black Guillemot chicks. This took us another 4 days! The
Kittiwakes and the Black Guillemots nest on both The Rock and The Bill, so that
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With all that has been happening, it is hard to believe that
out time on Rockabill will be coming to an end soon. As more and more nests
start emptying, we now have some time to enjoy some of Rockabill’s other
nature. In the recent sunny weather, we have spotted Buff-tailed bumblebees,
Painted Lady and Green-veined White butterflies in the gardens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have also been joined by Rockabill’s
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Since our last update, we have now completed the second nest
check! During this we found Arctic Tern chicks, which have hatched over the
previous weeks. Some of these have a more grey-coloured down compared to Common
Tern chicks. We also found hatched Black Guillemot chicks inside their nests.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Day to day, we have been busy conducting nest checks,
ringing and taking biometric data on the chicks. We take measurements of the
wing length and body weight of the chicks every day to obtain growth rates,
which can be compared with previous years.<br />
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<br />Brian Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08367042338202378020noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-85449246335453941982019-06-28T16:57:00.000+01:002019-06-28T16:57:03.396+01:00Rockablog 4 – A “Tern” of Events<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Life on the island has been busy of late. On Thursday the 6</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="text-align: justify;">
of June we had a visit from the conservation team at the EU LIFE project. They
came out for a few hours to see the island and were fortunate that the same
morning, we had our first Common Tern chicks hatch on the island.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">Following the EULIFE visit, with the help of Anita Donaghy, we conducted
the first nest census, where we take a record of every breeding birds nest on
the island which includes Common Terns, Arctic Terns, Roseate Terns,
Black-legged Kittiwakes and Black Guillemots. We will conduct a second nest
check in about a week’s time to insure no nests are missed or if any are laid
in the interim. As of our first count we have 1,446 Roseate Tern pairs breeding
on the island. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">We began recording egg length and width. When the chicks hatch, we ring
them, which allows us to ID them as they begin running around. We then began to
record chick weight and wing length daily within our study areas so that we can
measure their growth. This data allows for comparisons between years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /><span style="text-align: justify;">During the nest census we took a trip over to the Bill. This allowed us
to get a different view of the Rock than we are used to. Black Guillemot nests
were found and recorded. This year no Arctic Tern nests were found on the Bill.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">On Saturday the 8<sup>th</sup> myself, Andrew, Emma and Stephen were on
RTE Radio One’s program ‘Country Wide’ where we were interviewed by Suzanne
Campbell. The show is now available to listen to on the RTE website. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/21566549"><span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/21566549</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Brian Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08367042338202378020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-46250119695108114352019-06-28T13:20:00.001+01:002019-06-28T16:03:04.909+01:00Dalkey Arctic and Common Tern Colony mid - season update<div class="MsoNormal">
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exciting few weeks on the Dalkey Islands, with <b>the first Tern eggs discovered
on the 22<sup>nd</sup> of May, followed by the first Tern chick of the season
on the 13<sup>th</sup> of June.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The colony is split between three islands; Maiden Rock which
has the only Common Tern pair nesting on the islands this season, Lamb Island,
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now getting big enough that we have been able to carry out the first ringing
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<b>Both Lamb Island and Maiden Rock are restricted from access to members of the public during the breeding season to protect ground nesting birds. We also ask that on Dalkey Island, visitors are mindful of breeding birds, keep all dogs on leads and do not get too close to the sub - colonies.</b> A good rule of thumb is, if the birds are acting agitated, you're probably a little too close. :) </div>
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This year is the first time over the course of the project
that Tern chicks have survived long enough on Dalkey Island to be ringed. In
fact, <b>these are the first Tern chicks to ever be ringed on Dalkey Island
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This is an amazing result which is due in large part to the
tenacity of their parents, which are quite literally not afraid to knock some
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arctic Terns
on Dalkey Island dive bombing Stephen Newton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Over the winter we carried out rat baiting on both Dalkey
and Lamb Island. <b>Rats are a serious concern when present in a seabird colony.
Seabirds have evolved to nest on islands and cliff faces as these sites were
traditionally free of mammalian predators. As a result, these ground nesting
birds have not evolved adequate defences against potential predators such as
rats</b> (Rauzon 2007). <o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of the baiting project, it appeared that rats had
been successfully cleared from Lamb Island but had not been completely removed
from Dalkey Island. However, <b>the ability of these Tern chicks to survive thus
far on Dalkey Island suggests that the rat population is significantly reduced.</b>
Fingers crossed that these little guys will fledge and survive to come back to
the Dalkey Islands to breed in five years’ time!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arctic Tern
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chris Johnson
of BirdWatch Ireland assisting with the 2018/19 rat baiting project on Dalkey
Island.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The rings which these Terns have been fitted with will feed
into a wider understanding of how long these birds live, the rate of survival
for this species, and their migration routes.</b> Not bad for a tiny piece of
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First colour
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Colour ringing has revealed previously unknown facts about
the lives of many species of birds, including Common and Arctic Terns. <b>For
instance, we know from recoveries of ringed Common Terns which bred in the UK
and Ireland, that these birds overwinter in the western portion of Africa, as
far south as Namibia</b> (retrieved from BirdWatch Ireland’s Dublin Bay Birds
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<b>Resightings of ringed Arctic Terns and at sea surveys also provided
the first indications that these birds migrate to Antarctica where they
overwinter before returning north, some as far as the Arctic Circle, to breed.</b>
Geolocators have proven these theories correct in recent years, and also
revealed that these birds fly a circuitous route along the coastlines of South
America and Africa, using prevailing winds to help them along. <b>Arctic Terns,
weighing less than 125 grams or a quarter of a bag of sugar, migrate the
equivalent of three to nearly four round trips to the moon in their lifetime!
</b>(Barrett 2016; RSPB 2018). All going
well, the Common and Arctic Tern chicks on the Dalkey Islands will begin their
journeys to Africa or Antarctica respectively, at the end of the season.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>A successful Tern breeding season on the Dalkey Islands is
vital to the long – term success of the colony.</b> The last couple of years have
seen successive poor breeding seasons for these species on the Dalkey Islands
due to predation and also storm surges on Maiden Rock, which has led to a reduction in the number of returning
Common and Arctic Terns to the nesting grounds. </div>
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<b>Terns are colonial breeders,
which means that they typically prefer to nest in groups.</b> This provides better
defence against potential predators, as the more birds mobbing an intruder, the
less likely it is to snatch eggs or chicks, and it is also less likely that a
pairs brood will be predated. <b>Therefore, the smaller the colony, the more
vulnerable it is to predation.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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breeding on Rockabill Island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Both Common and Arctic Terns are Amber listed species
according to the Birds of Conservation Concern in Ireland.</b> This means that
although they are not considered on the verge of extinction in Ireland, they
are vulnerable. By contrast, <b>the Roseate Tern, a cousin of the Common and
Arctic Tern, is considered Europe’s most endangered seabird.</b> The Roseate Tern
is less feisty than its more aggressive cousins, and as such prefers to nest among
large colonies of Common and Arctic Terns upon whom it depends to help drive
away intruders.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Roseate Tern
on Rockabill Island. These birds, unlike Common and Arctic Terns, prefer to nest
under shelters such as nest boxes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>The Dalkey Tern Conservation Project is part of the larger
EU LIFE Roseate Tern Recovery Project. One of the aims of this project is to
reintroduce the Roseate Tern to the Dalkey Islands</b>, where as recently as 2004
eleven pairs bred. The reason it is considered critical to re-establish a
Roseate Tern colony on these islands is because one colony <b>in Ireland,
Rockabill Island off the coast of north Co. Dublin, supports over 50% of
Europe’s breeding Roseate Tern population.</b></div>
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The history of the Rockabill Roseate Tern colony is
fascinating, with numbers growing from just 152 pairs in 1989 to over 1,600
pairs last year, thanks to intensive and ongoing management by BirdWatch
Ireland. However, this high proportion of Europe’s breeding Roseate Tern
population on one island is akin to having all of your eggs in one basket. A
number of poor breeding seasons on Rockabill Island could have long term
consequences for the European population of this species. <b>Therefore,
diversifying the availability of suitable breeding habitat is crucial to the
long - term success of the Roseate Tern.</b></div>
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<b>To do this, we need to either remove predators such as rats
through baiting, or thwart potential predators such as gulls using a 1 m by
1 m grid pattern of canes in the Tern colonies. This reduces access to gulls
to the nesting sites on the Dalkey islands.</b> The three species of gulls present throughout
the breeding season have wings spans of 1.25m and above, while the wing spans of
the Terns are .75m and smaller. Therefore, <b>the idea is that gulls passing
overhead simply will not fit between the canes and therefore have less access
to the Tern nesting site.</b> See <a href="http://roseatetern.org/news/dalkeyternshavereturned?fbclid=IwAR0IDWzqXIw9kWOIolH0pcEDcEBQLyz6OknNeTTaoJZr9k84D6-E1viJejI">this</a> blog about our work to reduce predation on
the islands.</div>
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To increase the number of Arctic and Common Terns nesting on
the islands, we hope to use decoys (wooden or plastic figures which look like
Terns), and audio of Common and Arctic Terns to attract these species to the
islands next season. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Liam Gaynor recording
the Arctic Tern nest he’s just found. Grid pattern of canes to exclude passing gulls in
background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We’ll be walking on eggshells (not literally!) over the
coming weeks and keeping everything crossed for a successful year, but s<b>o far
this season is looking good! However, we are not out of the woods yet as Tern
chicks are extremely vulnerable to predation, weather events and disturbance
from people and dogs.</b> We’ve put out chick shelters, nest boxes, gravel and
canes to give them the best chance possible and will continue to monitor and to
the best of our ability protect the small but mighty Tern colony on the Dalkey
Islands.</div>
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Rockabill island shoreline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If
you want to find out more about the Dalkey Island Tern Conservation Project,
feel free to drop by the <b>Tern Watch Events on Tuesday nights from 5-8 pm at
Coliemore Harbour this July. </b>The Dalkey Tern Warden and members of the South Dublin
BirdWatch Ireland branch will be on hand to show you the Tern colony, the
surrounding wildlife and answer any questions you may have. Telescopes and binoculars
are available to use!</div>
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In addition,
<b>morning Tern Watch Events will be held at Coliemore Harbour from 11 – 1pm on
the 30<sup>th</sup> of June, and the 14<sup>th</sup> and 28<sup>th</sup> of
July.</b> Following these, <b>guided walks will be held on Dalkey Island at 2:30 and 4:15 pm, meeting at the pier on the
island.</b> For more information see the BirdWatch Ireland Facebook page and
website. Thanks to everyone who has come along, I've really enjoyed meeting you all! </div>
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And finally, <b>a massive thanks to Ken, Johnny and David Cunningham who have ferried us back and forth free of charge during both this and last year's nesting season. </b>This is an incredibly generous act, and one which is greatly appreciated! <b>If you have a chance to take the boat across to Dalkey Island with Ken and his brothers, I'd highly recommend it! </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Tara Adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262574072413177535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-84226273393468321932019-06-13T09:52:00.000+01:002019-06-13T09:52:04.989+01:00Rockabill – Week Three – The Eggcitement Begins<w:sdt contentlocked="t" id="89512093" sdtgroup="t"><b><i>As things get hectic on Rockabill we're playing catch-up with the blogs - keep an eye on here in the next week or two as we get you up to speed on everything that's been happening at one of Europe's most important seabird colonies! </i></b><br />
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The arrival of our first eggs has brought a new wave of
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It was certainly a “calm before the storm” situation. Barely
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We are now finding new nests and new eggs with every nest check.
Our nest checks are performed each morning and evening to help us to determine
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course. Whilst Roseate Terns prefer to nest in sheltered areas (which is
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Brian Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08367042338202378020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-33254973223716821012019-05-16T11:28:00.002+01:002019-05-16T11:28:53.921+01:00Guest blog - The Terns have returned: an update on the Dalkey Islands Tern Project<br />
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With the arrival of the Terns to the Dalkey Islands, it’s
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nesting season. So far, we have counted 15 Terns (both Common and Arctic) on
Maiden Rock and 5 Arctic Terns on Lamb Island. No eggs have been laid yet,
although there’s plenty of courtship activity taking place with males arriving
regularly with sandeels and sprat to their eager mates. While Roseate Terns
have not yet made their presence known, we’re hoping that nest boxes on Maiden
Rock and Lamb Island might entice a few pairs to lay down roots on the islands.
Roseate Terns have bred on Maiden Rock as recently as 2016, so we’ll be keeping
our eyes peeled over the coming season!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oystercatchers, like the Terns, have also been busy, with
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On Tuesday, the 14<sup>th</sup> of May, Steve Newton, the
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islands. Our first stop was Dalkey Island, where we unloaded our gear before
nipping across to Lamb Island as the tide fell, (some of us more nimbly than
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The idea behind this simple method is that at one metre
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Gulls (wingspan 135-150cm), Herring Gulls (wingspan 130-150cm) and Great Black
– backed Gulls (wingspan 150-170cm) to land between, while still allowing space
for the smaller Arctic, Common and Roseate Terns to fly into the colony. This was
tried in 2016 on the Inner Farne and Brownsman Islands off the northeast coast
of the UK with good success (Boothby et al., 2019). Fingers crossed it will
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With a good proportion of the canes in place, it was time to
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season. Johnny the boatman and his able navigator, Bowzer, were on hand to
safely ferry us back across the Dalkey Sound.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In total, we spotted 17 bird and two mammalian species. The
Terns were joined by diving Gannets further out to sea, and Razorbills and Manx
Shearwaters on their way to and from their breeding grounds (telescopes,
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Closer to shore, a Black Guillemot pair, which are nesting
in the wall of the harbour, bobbed on the sea before taking flight, their white
wing patches startling against the jet black of their bodies. Cormorants
basked, wings outstretched to dry, on the rocks between Maiden Rock and Lamb
Island among roosting Gulls and Terns. Grey seals, ever curious, peeked above
the water at passing boats, while rabbits were a common sight bounding across
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F<span style="font-family: inherit;">inally, although not of the avian or mammalian persuasion,
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All in all, it was a really pleasant night and it was great
to see some familiar faces from last years season popping down again to check
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Public goodwill and understanding are integral to the
success of the project. The Dalkey Islands, being on the edge of an urban hub,
are ideally located for showcasing the beauty and ecology of birds along with
mammals such as seals and harbour porpoises. It also introduces people to
the importance of projects such as the EU Life Roseate Tern Recovery Project, which the Dalkey Island Tern Conservation Project is a part of. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tuesday evening from 5 – 8pm at </b><b>Coliemore Harbour, Dalkey until the 30<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beginning<b> June
2<sup>nd</sup>,</b> <b>morning Tern Watch
Events </b>will be held<b> every second
Sunday at Colimore Harbour from 11am – 1pm, followed by three, one hour Guided
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who came down to the first Tern Watch Event of the season, and I look forward
to many more inspiring morning and evenings over the coming months!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Boothby, C., Redfern, C., & Schroeder,
J. (2019). An evaluation of canes as a management technique to reduce predation
by gulls of ground nesting seabirds. <i>International Journal of Avian
Science</i>, 161, 453-458.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Tara Adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262574072413177535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-46136912447360291532019-05-16T11:10:00.000+01:002019-05-16T11:10:43.020+01:00Rockabill - Week Two - Numerous nestboxes! The past week has been extremely busy! Since our last post we have cut the last of the Tree Mallow and spent our time organising nest boxes - some go into very precise locations to give continuity to our detailed nest monitoring in the various 'study plots' around the island. After that, it's a matter of filling nearly all available space to accomodate our burgeoning Roseate Tern population! Each box is placed firmly into the ground, with a stone weight put on top to ensure it doesn't budge for the next few months!<br /><br />
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Now that the manual labour is out of the way, the nest
monitoring begins. We have divided the island into different study sites
amongst ourselves. Like previous years, this consists of morning and afternoon
nest checks to accurately age eggs and hatchlings, identify chicks to their
parents and record the breeding success of the parents associated
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The Roseate Terns are easily distinguishable with the
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<br />Brian Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08367042338202378020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-71976783919667824872019-05-03T12:16:00.000+01:002019-05-03T12:16:36.116+01:00Rockabill 2019 - One week down, plenty to go! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #454545; mso-ansi-language: EN-IE; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
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of tree mallow - these large plants cover up the nesting areas for the Terns, so at the start of the season we remove the majority of it to ensure we have space for as many Tern nests as possible on this small island! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A group of well-grown common tern (<i>Sterna hirundo</i>) chicks and some adults gather on the rocks after a storm. Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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coming to an end. In the last couple of days, many chicks have fledged, giving
us that feeling of mission accomplished (well, almost!)! The island has become
noticeably emptier of chicks, but still lively with adults, non-breeding birds,
late chicks and some very late chicks! It is very entertaining to watch the
older chicks practicing their flights, taking their first trips to sea,
attempting to do some fishing around the edges of the colony and at the same
time still being fed by their parents, and actually looking bigger and fatter than the
parents themselves! Speaking of looks, although everyone loves a tiny fluffy
chick, fledglings also look absolutely class! Common terns acquire this coppery
and more blotchy tone to their feathers, while Roseates have a bit more golden
and symmetrical tone to theirs. All absolutely beautiful in each of their
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A roseate tern (<i>Sterna dougallii</i>) chick far from its nest. Notice the golden patterns to the feathers. Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A common tern chick wanders the path in Garden 5. Notice the copper tone to the feathers. Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now that chicks are fledging, we have been spending less time on biometrics (hard to catch birds that have learned how to fly!) and more time ring reading to assess survival, inputting all that precious data into the computer and monitoring some late nests. The weather has deteriorated a little in the past week (What? No more tropical island?!), which leaves us slightly claustrophobic, but happy about filling up our water tank! Soon it’ll be time to remove all nest boxes and markers and clean up the island for next year (then yes, it’ll be mission accomplished!). For now, we are enjoying our last few ‘tern’ moments for the year :) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We also have black-legged kittiwake (Rissa Tridactyla) chicks, this one, particularly young. Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the subject of late nests, this common tern chick is one of the latest in my study area. I wonder what it is saying! Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Practice makes perfect! An Arctic tern (<i>Sterna paradisaea</i>) chick practices its flight under his parent's evaluation. Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There has also been a lot of chilling, which I find it very entertaining to watch! Three common tern chicks and a roseate chick hang out on the pier wall, like all young folks do! Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And also a lot of eating! A Roseate parent brings dinner! Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An overview of 4B on a stormy day. Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And lastly, I'll leave you with a tern sunset. Photo taken under NPWS license. Photo credit: Heidi Acampora.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-10777849384809151902018-07-26T14:40:00.001+01:002018-07-27T15:39:49.704+01:00An Update from the Rock<br />
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Hello and apologies for
the radio silence! Since peak hatching was reached we have been
scrambling to keep up with the chicks' progress, leaving us little
time for anything else. In the last week we've had our first
fledglings take flight and things are becoming distinctly calmer
around here,so it's high time we filled you in on the goings-on
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A week after we said
our sad goodbyes to our Coquet Island counterparts we re-embarked on
our censusing mission. The combined results of the two censuses gave
us an estimate of breeding pair numbers: 1,633 Roseate Tern pairs,
2,044 Common Tern pairs, and 53 Arctic Tern pairs (compared to 27
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This year's ringing
sweep was a Rockabill reunion, with Brian Burke and Shane Somers, two
seasoned former wardens, returning to volunteer their time. Several
days of concentrated ringing later and all but the most Houdini-like
eligible chicks were ringed. <span style="text-align: center;">All in all we ringed 1,608 Roseate Tern chicks, 1,826 Common Tern chicks, 5 Arctic Tern chicks and 79 Black Guillemot chicks. This number is still growing, as the younger chicks get to a size suitable for ringing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">L: Common tern chicks queueing to be ringed. Photo Luíse Ní D. R: Heidi with an Arctic tern chick. Photo by Brian Burke, both taken under NPWS licence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">It's not all terns! Black guillemot chicks: young chicks on left, chick on right 2 weeks or so down the line. Photos by Brian Burke, under NPWS licence.</span></div>
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Since then we have begun
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It's been a busy auld time around here on Rockabill as of late. We've had a lot going on with visitors from Coquet Island being drafted into help with our Geolocator Tagging Study of roseate terns and also the epic task of censusing this here small but nest-packed island.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A retrieved Geo-locator tag (centre left of photo), records light level which can be used to calculate the latitude and longitude of the bird over it's long-distance migrations to and from West Africa.</td></tr>
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Coquet Island is another tern colony located just off the coast of Northumberland, Northern England in the North Sea (<a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/projects/coquet-island-seabird-sanctuary/">https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/projects/coquet-island-seabird-sanctuary/</a>). It hosts an impressive seabird colony hosting nesting birds such as: roseate, common, arctic and sandwich terns, black-headed, lesser black-backed, herring gulls, eider ducks, shelducks and more! The colony is taken care of by the RSPB, and Coquet island, like Rockabill, is also parts of the EU Roseate Tern Life Project. (<a href="http://roseatetern.org/index.html">http://roseatetern.org/index.html</a>).</div>
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Dr. Paul Morrison, Ibrahim Alfarwi (PhD candidate) and Dr. Stephen Newton landed on the Rock last Monday the 11th and after a brief coffee were put straight to work as we assembled our team and began the eggceptionally herculean task of finding every nest on the rock, counting every egg and marking all the nests. We searched through every patch of tree mallow, mayweed and scurvy grass as well as considerable number of nooks and crannies and 843 nestboxes. We were not disappointed! In total this exhaustive search yielded 1473 Roseate Tern nests, 1851 Common Tern nests and 63 Artic Tern nests. </div>
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After the initial census of Rockabill was completed it was time to re-trap all of the roseate terns that were initially tagged with Geo-locators last year. Ibrahim manned the hide on the south side of the island overlooking the nestboxes of the geo-locator birds, waiting patiently for birds fly in and out of boxes revealing their tags and relaying info to Dr. Steve and Paul who then caught 12 out of 20 of the tagged birds, a great result, though we hope to get some more in the near future when the boss man returns.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve attentively removing the Geo-locator tag while Paul takes note of ring and biometric data for a roseate tern. <i>Image taken under NPWS licence.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve measures the wing length of a roseate tern. <i>Image taken under NPWS licence.</i></td></tr>
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Now that everyone has left and Steve has headed for sunnier shores to liase with other members of the LIFE Project in the Azores as they visit the second largest Roseate Tern colony on this side of the Atlantic, time for the second census where the three of us will take on the challenge again and find the last of the nests. We're currently mid re-census and the numbers just keep climbing! Stay tuned for a final tally on the Rockabill Terns.<br />
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Oh and in other news are eggs have begun hatching <i>en masse </i>with many sorry little wet creatures emerging for the first look at the world but it doesn't take too long for them to dry off and tern into fluffy cute chicks that would just make your heart melt! It won't be long until these tiny cuties start legging it all around the place in force, in fact it's only going to be a day or two. Anyways that's all I got for now but we'll back again soon with more updates. Though if your bird senses are twitching and you're still looking for your fill on Rockabill life please check out the Instagram page "Birds_bats_and_beyond" for pictures of bird-life on the Rock (not affiliated with BirdWatch Ireland or anyone/thing else for that matter, all views my own if there even are any and please excuse this shameless self-promotion :D )<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-26696226318694214752018-06-08T11:30:00.000+01:002018-06-08T11:30:41.644+01:00Egg season<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Yes, full egg
season is upon us. Rockabill is teeming with eggs. Some of our main species,
Roseate (</span><span style="color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sterna dougallii</span></i><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">)</span></span> and Common (<i>Sterna hirundo</i>) terns have now laid their second and third eggs,
respectively. Arctic terns (<i>Sterna paradisaea</i>) and <span style="font-family: inherit;">Black Guillemots</span> (<span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cepphus grylle</span></i></span>) are also on their way and
Black-legged Kittiwakes (<i>Rissa Tridactyla</i>), have just started… we still see them traveling around
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<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span>Common terns get
extremely protective and aggressive during this period. We miss the days we
could walk the island peacefully! Now we are being attacked left and right,
they peck our heads, our hands, poop on our heads and let’s admit it, sometimes on
our faces too and scream in our ears. You have to admire their courage! They
will do everything to protect their potential offspring. As Tim Birkhead says:
“eggs are the most beautiful thing” indeed! Females invest so much on them, all their
nutrients in the prior weeks before laying, the energy during the incubation
period (shared by both partners in this case) and in protecting them from
predators. During the process of egg laying, males will feed females. It is a
funny thing to watch males coming into the colony holding fish in their bills
and trying to find their partners. When they do find them, they sometimes still
seem to tease them a bit before they actually feed them. I can definitely
identify with the “hangry” (hungry + angry) females annoyingly screaming until
fed, and sometimes after too, begging for more! Common terns normally lay 3-egg
clutches in open nests on the ground. Roseates, on the other hand, generally
lay 2-egg clutches in the wooden nest boxes provided, but that’s not to say
that some Roseates will not lay open nests or just have the nutrients or energy
for a single egg. Reproduction is a serious investment in the life of a
seabird. If a bird needs to prioritize its own body condition of if reproducing
during that season does not look favourable, for external factors, a bird will likely
skip a reproductive year and try again the following season.</div>
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During egg
season, one of our main worries is to keep the island predator free. Luckily
here on Rockabill, we do not have to worry about any rodents (they would
probably keep me off the island too!), but we do need to worry about gulls and birds
of prey, especially Great Black Backed gulls (<i>Larus marinus</i>) and Peregrine falcons (<i>Falco peregrinus</i>). If given a
chance, they predate on nutritious eggs, and sometimes on adult birds too, leaving
a trail of destruction. For that, we have a gull scarer device, which plays
distressing calls to keep gulls away, and we also do 5 AM shifts, when we try
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for a very productive season, with many fledglings successfully leaving us at
the end. For now though, you can find us counting eggs around,
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">That busy dinner hour! Common terns (<i>Sterna hirundo</i>) enjoy the Rockabill sunset while waiting for that take away fish :) Photo taken under NPWS licence.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Until next time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="color: blue;">Heidi Acampora</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-7649130154820130912018-05-27T14:08:00.000+01:002018-05-28T16:48:04.206+01:00Holding Court<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Rockabill
is alive with the sound of courting terns: shrill calls to mates, the
helicopter-like warnings not to encroach on a particular tern's
territory, females demanding to be fed... It's pretty loud!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Courtship in terns occurs
in three main stages, with both sexes taking an active role in mate choice. The first stage takes place in the air, in
circling displays above the colony. The aerial nature of this display
may allow potential mates to size each other up, perhaps literally:
there is some indication that the length of tail streamers in roseate
terns is linked to reproductive quality, and may help terns decide on
a suitable mate<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3273346470781442324#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a>.
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">With
wings spread wide and sunlight shining on them, terns can see how
colourful each others flight feathers are. This may seem like an odd
thing to say about a white/grey/black looking bird, but terns can see
in the ultraviolet spectrum, and their newest flight feathers are
covered in barbules which reflect this type of light. Terns are
unusual in that they replace their flight feathers two and even three
times a year. This happens slowly, and in overlapping stages, so that
the second and third wave of feather growth can be seen at the same
time. An abundance of new, “colourful” feathers may indicate good
condition, and make that tern more attractive<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3273346470781442324#sdfootnote2sym" name="sdfootnote2anc"><sup>2</sup></a>.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Roseate terns strike a pose. Taken under NPWS license by Luíse Ní Dhonnabháin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Terns
pair off at the peak of this spiral, and after much displaying of the
male's prized fish, he leads the female back to his nesting
territory. Here after much synchronised posturing, the male hands
over the fish to the female, after which they copulate for the first
time</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> (in common terns up to 50 copulations have been recorded for a single pair)</span><span style="text-align: center;"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3273346470781442324#sdfootnote3sym" name="sdfootnote3anc" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left;"><sup>3</sup></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Roseate tern pair mating. Taken under NPWS license by Luíse Ní Dhonnabháin.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">In
the second stage the pair head out to sea to feed, occasionally
visiting the nesting territory.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">In
the final stage the female stays at the nest site while the male
forages, bringing back food to the female while she lays the eggs.
Some terns prefer to rob fish from their peers rather than head out
fishing themselves. The time saved means that these terns can feed
their mate more often, resulting in females with higher body masses
and better outcomes for their fledglings. In spite of this, these
kleptoparasites seem to make up only a small proportion of the
colony's population<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3273346470781442324#sdfootnote4sym" name="sdfootnote4anc"><sup>4</sup></a>.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Roseate female wishes male would just hand it over. Taken under NPWS licence by Luíse Ní Dhonnabháin.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
arrival of the first eggs on Rockabill this week marks the end of the
courtship period for the early birds, but there are still many more
wooing away!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">We
hope you've been enjoying National Biodiversity Week, and made it to
some of the programme's events. Until the next time!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Luíse Ní Dhonnabháin</span></i></b><br />
<b><i>& The Rockabill Team.</i></b></div>
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Palestis, B.G. <i>et. al. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(2012)
'</span><span style="font-style: normal;">Tail length and sexual
selection in a monogamous, monomorphic species, the Roseate Tern
</span><i>Sterna dougallii</i><span style="font-style: normal;">'
</span><i>Journal of Ornithology</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
, 153 (4).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3273346470781442324#sdfootnote2anc" name="sdfootnote2sym" style="font-size: small;">2</a><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
Cabot D. and Nisbet</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
I. (</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2013)
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Terns</i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.
HarperCollins:London.</span></span></div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3273346470781442324#sdfootnote3anc" name="sdfootnote3sym">3</a><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "lucida sans unicode" , "microsoft sans" serif , "segoe ui symbol" , "stixgeneral" , "cambria math" , "arial unicode ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">González-Solı́saf
J., Sokolov E., Beckerd P.F. (2001) '</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Courtship
feedings, copulations and paternity in common terns, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sterna
hirundo</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">'
Animal Behaviour, 61(6)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></div>
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</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">García,
G.O., </span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Becker
P.H, Favero M. (2012) </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Kleptoparasitism
during courtship in Sterna hirundo and its relationship with female
reproductive performance.'</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>
Journal of Ornithology, </i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">152(1).</span></span></div>
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Rockablog! A whole
new season is currently just kicking off with a large flock of terns having
arrived on the Rock on Thursday 3rd. It’s all hands on deck and the
seasonal rush is upon us and we've deployed over 840 nest boxes around the island to
accommodate all our guests! There are three of us wardening the island again
this year Luíse O’Donovan, Heidi Acampora and myself, David Miley, returning for
my second season on the Rock.<o:p></o:p><br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lunch on the helipad. </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Johnny Woodlock</i></td></tr>
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We began work here 3 weeks ago with vegetation clearance of
the thick mallow which covers many parts of the island, and requires thinning
to make more space available for nesting Roseate, Common and Arctic Terns. We
were massively assisted by Scout Leaders Declan de Freitas, Steven Stewart, Alan O' Kelly and
Johnny Woodlock of Skerries Sea Scouts. Thanks a million, your hard work and sore backs are greatly appreciated gentlemen!<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scout Leaders Alan, Johnny and Steven enjoy the view after a hard days work, while Declan is still giving it socks, fair play Dec! <i>Photo Credit: David Miley</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In rough weather some days there's only one way to get on the boat! <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Johnny Woodlock</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Dr. Stephen "The Ferryman" Newton our rower </span>extraordinaire<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> gets the lads onto the boat safe and mostly dry! </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Johnny Woodlock</i></td></tr>
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On Friday 4th of May we also received some very special
guests from the mainland bearing very beautiful gifts for our Roseate Terns!
Balbriggan Community College who have been producing nest boxes for the
Rockabill Roseate Tern Scheme for the past 25 years and have produced over a
1,000 nest boxes, amazing work!!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our student artisan crafts-people departing from Malahide for their trip to the Rock. <i>Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Group photo time! <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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That’s 25 years of present and past students, teachers and staff members that have been involved! Talk about making a difference to front-line conservation, their nest boxes have been present and providing shelters for nests and chicks of Roseate Terns for a quarter of a century as their numbers have soared from a meagre 189 pairs in 1989 to 1603 pairs in 2017. Below is the elegant and beautiful commemorative 25th Anniversary Box that Balbriggan Community College designed and produced:<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Students of Balbriggan Community College have built and provided nestboxes for the terns on Rockabill since 1993." <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Balbriggan Community College has co-operated with BirdWatch Ireland and has produced over 1,000 nestboxes for the Rockabill Project." <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Many past pupils have been involved with the scheme organised by the school Woodwork Teachers: Mr. Harford 1993-2001, Mr. Macken 2001-2010, Mr. Boylan 2012-2018." <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The huge increase in breeding numbers of Roseate Terns from 189 pairs in 1989 to 1600 in 2017, owes much of it's success to the nestboxes provided by the school." <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sponsored by Shearwater Sea Kayaking in 2018." <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proudly waving the flag! <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo Credit: Sean Pierce.</i></td></tr>
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A very special thank you to Balbriggan Community College for their continued and treasured support that they have provided for the Roseate Terns and the Rockabill Project over the years! Also a huge thanks to the 2nd Year Woodwork Class with Mr. Boylan, the Transition Year Art Class with Ms. Rossiter and Ms. Grant for design inputs. Beautiful boxes everyone ye really went the extra mile this year, we were really blown away by the creativity of this years boxes!<br>
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Things have been relatively quiet on the Tern front as the colony has been moving out sea and back onto the Rock on a number of occasions while they get settled, though they do seem to be really getting into the swing of things now with the colony starting to become very busy with at least 2,000-3,000 terns with us at the moment. We've yet to see our first egg on the island but I'm sure it'll only be a matter of days now.<br>
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Also folks there are numerous boats in the area out fishing, enjoying the weather and wildlife, a number which have attempted landings on the island, I'd like to inform people that landing is strictly limited to personnel authorised by The National Parks and Wildlife Services and The Council of Irish Lights and if fishing or taking photos around the island please refrain from landing or coming too close to shore that you cause disturbances to the Terns and Kittiwakes. That's all from us here on the Rock, we'll be back with more blog updates soon!<br>
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The Rockablog comes out of hibernation early this year with some great news - the Rockabill conservation project has been <b>nominated for a prestigious award</b> - a Natura 2000 award!</div>
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For those of you who have voted, <b>you have our heartfelt thanks</b>! It's the 30th year of the Rockabill conservation project, and winning this award would be a great way to mark that milestone. I do however understand if there are some of you who need a bit more convincing, so in the coming weeks we'll have a number of blogs, each with a new (and very convincing) reason as to why you should give Rockabill your vote!</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">When the project began </span><b style="text-align: justify;">in 1989 there was only 189 pairs of Roseate Terns </b><span style="text-align: justify;">on Rockabill, and less than 500 in Ireland and the UK in total. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Fast-forward to <b>2017 and we had over 1,600 pairs </b>on Rockabill - ten times what we started with. And for a bird that only lays 1 or 2 eggs each year, that's an amazing result! Take a look at the graph below - you just don't see population trends like that anywhere, especially over such a long period, but the Rockabill Roseate Tern </span><b style="text-align: justify;">population has been going up and up and up thanks to years of conservation efforts. </b><br />
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The Rockabill population now represents 85% of the north-west European population of Roseate Terns and <b>Rockabill has helped secure the future of the species in this part of the world</b> - surely that's worth a vote?! Rockabill has been described as the '<b>Roseate Tern factory</b>' of Europe.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s been a
busy time here on The Rock this past month with the vast majority of eggs
having now hatched. We’ve seen the eggs here tern from chick to fledgling in
what seems like no time at all as we wardens have been scrambling to try keep
up with the big peaks in synchronised laying and hatching that happen. The
chicks go through dramatic changes here in a very short space of time (30
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> This is the first chick hatched in a 3 egg
clutch Common Tern clutch and we can also see it’s sibling has pipped a little
hole in its egg and will be out soon (likely in the next 24hrs). This chick is around 1 day old, they’re more
or less immobile for their first 1-2 days and it is nearing the point of taking
it first few steps around the nest. When they emerge from their eggs they are
wet, sorry looking creatures but soon they dry off and become these cute little
fluff balls that wait in the nest for mammy or daddy to come home with a nice
wee sprat or sand eel. They rapidly put on weight and have usually doubled in
weight after just 2 days going from 10-12g to 24g!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pins. This common tern chick is around 7 days old at this point has started
growing their pins, the narrow tube like structures from which their very first
set of feathers will emerge from. At this stage they have become quite mobile
and start venturing all over the place away from their original nest site to
any decent shelter or hiding place. Though venturing around the place comes
with its own dangers as they can be pecked by other adults who are usually none
too pleased to see these curious chicks that aren't theirs roaming around their nests and chicks.</span><br />
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common chick that has reached a bit of an intermediate stage between chick and fledgling.
As you can see it’s still quite fluffy overall particularly on its head and
body but the wings are becoming quite feathery and chicks at this stage spend a
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referred to as the great balding (by me) where their juvenile plumage has more
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fully fledged Roseate Tern, and this folks is what Rockabill is all about. If
these young chicks can survive all the way through the trials and tribulations
of early life where they must run the gauntlet of survival, persevering against
food scarcity, exposure to wind, rain and being chilled to death and not to
mention predation; they eventually take their place out on the rocks amongst the
pantheon of great ones (i.e. the ones who survived) near the pools where there
parents bathe, preen and sun themselves. At this point they’re capable of
flying quite well but still not the best flyers just yet and many end up flying off and ending up in the surf to have to paddle back to the rocks and dry off before making anymore premature flight attempts. They’re also still reliant
on their parents for food still quite some time, as the art of fishing remains
a mystery to them for quite some time yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b>David Miley </b></i></span></div>
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weekend our tiny island was lucky enough to receive a royal visit. After much
anticipation and a generous piece of luck with our famous Irish weather, Her
Imperial Highness, Princess Takamado of Japan, arrived from Lambay just after
ten o’clock on Sunday morning, together with BirdWatch Ireland’s Chairperson,
Gerry Lyons, and Interim CEO, Declan O Sullivan, and a select party of invited
guests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">An avid
birder, Her Imperial Highness (HIH) is Honorary President of BirdLife International
and an accomplished wildlife photographer. Despite a packed itinerary of
official business, HIH had made the trip out to us specially here at Rockabill,
in the hope of spotting some Atlantic Puffins in their summer finery, as well
as some of our breeding Roseate Terns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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accounts this special and unique visit was a great success. Following a calm
crossing, HIH was
greeted on Rockabill by a full variety of the island’s bird life. With the nesting
season in full swing, we were able to show HIH everything from clutches of
unhatched eggs through tiny fluff ball Common Terns to nearly fledged Roseate
Terns. Dr. Steve Newton was on hand to locate a Black Guillemot nest - luckily
the entourage came prepared with baby wipes for when the chicks presented HIH
with their regurgitated lunch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">As our most
seasoned warden, Shane Somers had the honour of catching an adult Common Tern
to show HIH. From the ring, we determined that the bird he caught was a local -
born and ringed here on Rockabill in 1994, making it 23 years old, the same age
as our youngest warden!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">Along with
this season’s young, HIH got a good look at the adult terns as well. The hide
in Garden 5 has previously been modified for ease of access, and proved a
perfect spot for observing the aerial acrobatics of Roseate Terns in flight.
Hopefully HIH got some great shots!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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signing Rockabill’s guest book and posing for some photos of our own, HIH
sailed back to Howth for the final stop on her seabird sightseeing, leaving us
flustered, impressed, and surrounded by much appreciated cupcakes from HIH’s
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our weeding and carpentry, a huge amount of preparation went on behind the
scenes into organising and authorising this amazing visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A BIG<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> thanks to
everyone at BirdWatch Ireland HQ for making it happen. It was great to have the
opportunity to host such an interested and genuinely enthusiastic birder, not
to mention someone who happens to be royalty! Hopefully HIH will take back some
fond memories of her time on the Leinster coast, which along with her photos,
showcase the fantastic natural heritage still to be found here, and the
importance of the conservation work done to protect it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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June on Maidens’ Rock. Steve, Brian and Niamh all joined to help me out. We
ringed 11 chicks with 2 others too small just yet. I think we might have missed
6 others which had already hatched but with so many nooks and crannies to hide
in it is hard to tell. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"></a><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">There are also Oystercatcher
chicks around but they need to grow a bit before they are big enough to ring,
usually they are much faster than tern wardens at that stage!</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There has
been an influx of new nests on Maidens’ rock but unfortunately this is likely
due to the Lamb colony collapse over the weekend of 10<sup>th</sup>/11<sup>th</sup>
June where there were at least 90 pairs. The Maidens’ colony has grown from
about 30 pairs to approximately 90, it is impossible to tell for sure due to
relaying of original pairs and continual relaying of new pairs due to predation
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season to track the progress of the colony and hopefully get some Roseate Terns
nesting too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>The Dalkey Tern Watch is running <b>every Tuesday</b> <b>Evening</b> <b>5-8pm</b></u> until the
end of July at Coliemore Harbour as well as Weekend events. During July the
South Dublin BirdWatch Ireland branch also run the event from 6:30-8pm, they
have been doing so for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>Sunday 2<sup>nd</sup>, 11am-1pm. </b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ll be running the Tern Watch as normal and
then 2:30, 3:30 & 4:30pm I will be running 45 min guided walks on Dalkey
Island. You need to make your own way to the Island (ferry), meeting at the
pier on the Island. The event is weather/boat dependant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">All events will be advertised on:</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="http://events.dlrcoco.ie/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">http://events.dlrcoco.ie/</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BirdWatchIreland/">https://www.facebook.com/BirdWatchIreland/</a></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BirdWatchIE">https://twitter.com/BirdWatchIE</a></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">And locally in Dalkey town centre.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">Last week
we were delighted to host Paul Morrison and Dr. Chris Redfern from the UK as
part of knowledge sharing within the EU LIFE Project. Paul oversees the conservation of a number of seabird species
on the massively important Coquet Island. Coquet is the second largest Roseate tern colony in Europe. The island also supports over 12,800 puffins and many Eider
ducks, Common and Arctic Terns. Following the success of the GLS monitors used
on Black Guillemots here last season, a number of roseate terns were caught and
fitted with their own monitors. Chris and Paul’s expertise were vital in
fitting these loggers safely. These devices will track the birds migrations
using incident sunlight to detect latitude and longitude. Hopefully we will have
both these gentlemen back to recapture the study birds next year!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">We have
recently completed our nest census which involves counting every tern nest on
the island whether Common, Arctic or Roseate. The official numbers are 2085 Common
nests, 1597 Roseate nests and 44 Arctic nests. A large proportion of these have
hatched in the last week so the island is crawling with chicks. We have high hopes this year to fledge more Arctic chicks than previous years. We have therefore started patrolling the colony early in the morning to deter predators from taking eggs or chicks in the more exposed areas of the colony. Arctics nest here in very low numbers so don't have the mob mentality of their Common cousins. This means they are pushed to the edge of the colony and more exposed to predation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chicks!</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">This week
marked two major milestones of the season here on Rockabill. Firstly, we are in
the midst of the all important nest census (or in the official parlance; The Great
Egg Hunt). The nest census involves us covering every inch of ground including paths,
tops of walls and the most unlikely looking undergrowth. Counting the number
and size of the clutches for each species is a vital part of monitoring the effectiveness
of the our conservation efforts for the Roseate, Common and Artic terns. An
accurate count of nests on the island along with the data from our intensively
monitored study plots gives us information on the number of fledglings produced
by Rockabill each year. The nest census also tells us the number of breeding
pairs on the island- one of the most important measures of the health of any
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Our first Roseate chick, sheltering in a nestbox. Picture taken under NPWS licence.</i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">Today we
were very excited to find our first chicks of the season! Our first Roseate chick
hatched in a nest box and we stumbled across a very well camouflaged Common Tern
during the census. This means we are moving into a new phase of our duties here
as wardens. We will monitor the growth rates of each chick in our study plots
which is a great indicator of their health and ultimately the quality of their
diet. The ability of the adult terns to fish is a major concern as our marine
resources are severely strained due to overfishing. Hopefully our feeding
studies later in the season will shine more light on this aspect of the terns
ecology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>Freshly hatched Common Tern. </i><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Picture taken under NPWS licence.<br /></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The noble visage of Andrew Power, grandly surveying all that lays before him.</i></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IE;">Finally, a
huge shout out to Andrew Power who was here last week to carry out fieldwork
for his PhD on marine contaminants. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was a privilege to have one of Irelands leading wildlife conversationalists <i>(sic)</i> in
our midst! Come back (bring food).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><b>Meet the Wardens</b></u></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s been a
great day for the Parish here on Rockabill. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">First of all,
we have our illustrious OverLord-and-Master Steve Newton out to visit us. He is
determined to teach us his ways, and has been hand catching black guillemots
all morning to assert his dominance and secure our enduring servitude.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Steve removes</span><span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> a GLS tracker from a Black Guillemot.</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Some of the
black guilles on the island had previously been fitted with GLS trackers (Geo-location
systems) to give us an insight into where they spend their time during the
winter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">According to
the literature, Black guilles are not expected to move around much, but we will
keep you posted if we find differently!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Along with some
much appreciated milk, Steve supplied us with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andrew POWA! Andrew’s an old hand when it
comes to terns, having been a warden on Rockabill in 2015. He’s back out to
gather data on ocean contaminants for his PhD!!! Fair play Andrew. He was
willing to share his tomatoes and cheese with us, so we will continue to expect
great things from him: one to watch!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This week’s
adventures will be the subject of blogs to follow, but since we’re finally
settled and getting used to life on the island, we thought that first we should
properly introduce ourselves! Without further ado, please welcome the cast of
this year’s summer season: the tern wardens of Rockabill; a breed rarer than
the Roseates themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Age: 24 and a
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Wing span:
6’7”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Special skill: Heavyweight
Generator Starting Champion of the World (one week undefeated so far).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Shane is
commander in chief out here, having spent 5 weeks on the Island last summer. He
has worked with everything from sparrow weavers in South Africa to cutting edge
gas sensing lasers in one of the world’s smallest labs. If his sanity survives
the season, he will go on to betray his Trinity roots by undertaking a Computational
Biology Masters in UCC this September. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a fun fact about himself, but he’s a lovely guy, honestly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Quote: <i>“When
Brian was here..”</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>David Miley
“Cyrus” </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Age: Mid-forties<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ring tone: “Funky town” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Special skill: Making
delicious dinners and emitting powerful yells when they fall on the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Nemesis: the
Common (or garden) Tern. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">On top of his
secret and successful career as a teen-pop sensation, Miley is our resident
handy man, responsible for building new ring reading hides and repairing
lighthouse steps! Building on his origins as a Galwegian Marine Scientist, he
went on to do an environmental Masters in UCD and now has an interest in everything
from bat surveys to identifying grasses! He is an enthusiast of Irish
biodiversity in all it’s forms, though the common terns in our densely
populated Garden Five are testing his patience.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Quote: <i>“This
island has taken everything from me”</i>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Age: No longer
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kryptonite:
Gluten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<s><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Irene </span></s><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caroline
has recently finished her final exams and is eager to tell you all about it. This
fast talking southside dub has exploded out of final year Trinity zoology in a
blaze of glory to make her name as a Bird Saviour in the high stakes world of
seabird conservation. Having recently gained the ability to differentiate
between gannets and swans on the wing, this newest edition to the Rockabill
crew is set to make a splash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The first visit to the colony this season was on 10th May with approximately 50 terns on Maidens' (10 Common Tern & 40 Arctic) and 17 on Lamb. By 20th May we had all our nest boxes out, 25 on Lamb and 14 on Maidens'. We also put out lots of gravel and sand on each island to make the site as attractive as possible to breeding terns. Hopefully we can attract some Roseates, none so far! (I'm still hopeful)<b> </b></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk483309104"></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">My most
recent visit to check the colony was May 30<sup>th</sup>. The colony is now up
to similar numbers to last year, with 116 nests in total, with 90 on Lamb Island,
23 on Maidens’ Rock and 3 on Dalkey Island. The Dalkey Island birds are
surrounded by breeding large gulls, within 3 metres of a Great Black-backed
Gull nest. I don’t know why they chose that spot when there’s a much nicer and
safer spot on Lamb but fingers crossed they are successful.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very unusual to get 4 eggs in an Arctic Tern nest, probably one laid by another tern, picture taken under license from NPWS, Andrew Butler</td></tr>
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throughout the season to track the progress of the colony and hopefully get
some Roseate Terns nesting too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Dalkey Tern Watch is running
every Tuesday Evening 5-8pm until the end of July at Coliemore Harbour as well
as Saturday events, dates to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The next events are this weekend,
Sunday 4<sup>th</sup> & Monday 5<sup>th</sup>. 11am-1pm I’ll be running the
Tern Watch as normal and then 2:30, 3:30 & 4:30pm I will be running 40 min
guided walks on Dalkey Island. You need to make your own way to the Island
(ferry)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>, meeting at the pier on the Island. So the event
is weather/boat dependant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The first 2 Tuesdays have been very
nice with lovely weather but I wouldn’t mind a few more visitors, so anybody
thinking of coming along, please do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The species list from Tuesday the 23rd of may.</td></tr>
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Brian Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08367042338202378020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273346470781442324.post-61207218627344699872017-05-19T10:16:00.000+01:002017-05-19T10:16:09.544+01:00Day 13 on The Rock!(<i>Article authored on Thursday the 18th of May 2017</i>)<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The bird of the season,
<i>Sterna dougallii</i> A.K.A. The Roseate Tern, mid-preen [(Photograph courtesy of Shane Somers) Taken under NPWS License]</span></div>
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the Big Birdy House, oh sorry I mean Rockabill Island. Today is the first full day
for our newest arrival Caroline McKeon, fresh in from finishing her final exams
in Zoology, congratulations and fair play Caroline! We’ve been showing her the
ropes and getting her used to all her new wardening duties. It’s also a day
mixed with a tinge of sadness at losing our former Rockabill Warden/Blog
writer/Pun Enthusiast Irene Sullivan yesterday, who has moved into a luxurious
caravan in Kilcoole where she will be working as a Little Tern Warden and has
access to all the pleasantries of mainland life such as running water and
showers within a ten minute walk from her residence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Along
with our warden exchange we also received a fresh shipment of finely crafted and
greatly appreciated nest boxes from the kind and skilled students of Balbriggan
Community College. No time has been wasted in getting these precious love
shacks out to the various sites around the Rock where they will provide ample protection
for nesting Roseate Terns, their clutches of eggs and soon to be pulli (that’s
chicks that haven’t fledge yet, for the uninitiated). Nest boxes have been instrumental
in increasing the Roseate Tern population on Rockabill, they protect eggs and
chicks from what can be extremely harsh weather conditions on this tiny island, as
well as providing a hideout from the prying eyes of a variety of predators. So thank you
very much to all the students and staff at Balbriggan Community College your
work and generous donations will contribute to the conservation of one </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Europe’s
rarest breeding seabirds! </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The old and the new; a row of our old and deteriorating boxes against our shiny, generously contributed, new boxes! [(Photograph courtesy of Shane Somers) Taken under NPWS License]</span></td></tr>
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doesn’t take long after deployment for our Rosies to start scouting out new
boxes, as the pairs have a squawk about the new real estate, a bit of a perch
and see if this is the next rung on the property ladder for them. Once the
decision is made they’ll settle and get a scrape going, forming a nice fresh
bowl under their luxurious ceilings and, with any luck, eggs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Things are
changing rapidly around Rockabill, we had our first Roseate egg on the 13<sup>th</sup>
after a quiet lull of no other eggs in sight for 4 days, it’s all starting to
happen at once with eggs springing up all over the place since yesterday (May
17th), it’s keeping myself, Shane and Caroline on our toes (literally: we have
to be very careful moving around the island as eggs can be laid and hidden
anywhere!). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well that’s
all for now everyone thanks for reading and may your day be filled with a lot
less bird guano than mine! :D<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yours Truly<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">David
Miley</span></i></span></span><br />
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