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Rarely has a morning been so exciting - we learned yesterday that one of the Ascension Island frigatebird eggs is hatching! While not out of the wood yet (the chick still needs to survive to fledging), this will be the first time in 180 years that the species has been able to breed successfully on...

Latest news from Nathan and Dane on Ascension Island... At the end of last year we installed two sets of Ascension Island frigatebird decoys on the main island to see if we could attract breeding birds back (read more here ). Just in today, juvenile birds have been seen landing among out plastic friends...

Today we went back down to Letterbox to attach data loggers to masked boobies to find out where they go when not sitting on their eggs – we have very little idea where they forage, or how far afield they travel. (In case you are wondering, the area is called Letterbox because, well, there is a...

(Written yesterday, but I managed to lock up the computer by forgetting the password - not that smart!) We're back from Letterbox and a successful deployment of the first batch of frigatebirds. What looks like a great tan is really a layer of Ascension Island dust, stuck fast with suntan lotion...

The pilot announced our descent into Ascension and all I could see out of either window was ocean all the way to the horizon. Were the white-caps ripples on a calm ocean, or the tips of angry rollers? There was no frame of reference, and then suddenly we were over land and down. My first thought on arrival...

Just below the Equator, Ascension Island is a tiny dot on the map halfway between Africa and South America. At 11pm tonight, I'm setting off with colleague Liz and volunteer Richard for a nine hour flight to one of the longest runways in the world. While the military passengers have a quick cuppa...