A Wageningen Marine Research study shows that razorbills and guillemots on the North Sea avoid wind parks in their flight path. The study uses a new ...
Extreme weather events could also displace bird habitats, change the way they access food, and consequently impact the way ...
As soon as young birds can leave the nest ... LARGE AUKS are about the size of a duck and include puffins, murres, guillemots, and the rhinoceros auklet. Murre Colony, Norton Sound.
Specifically, environmental requirements meant to protect the birds during their nesting season ... since seabirds like western gulls and pigeon guillemots are known to nest in the wooden columns ...
Chris Lingard, countryside manager at the trust, said the birds needed "space during their breeding season for them to thrive". He said: "The guillemots lay only a single egg in a season so we ...
Other birds such as guillemots and razor bills seem to fly round the thickets of turbines, a journey which uses energy that could otherwise be used for breeding. The RSPB and wind farm association ...
This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Bird cries seem to claw at the bright summer sky. The birds themselves—puffins, gannets, gulls, guillemots—whirl ...