Your recent sightings at Bempton Cliffs
Your recent sightings
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Kittiwake Monitoring at Bempton Cliffs
Image: Kittiwake and chicks, Martin Jones-Gill This week, I’m delving into the world of kittiwake monitoring! This is carried out in a pretty similar way to the herring gull monitoring I do here, but this time I’m watching just one fixed spot. My plo...
Posted 14/07/2021 by poppyrummery -
Herring Gull Monitoring at Bempton Cliffs
Each week, I head out on to the reserve to monitor a selection of herring gull nests. This year I’m keeping an eye on around 20 AOS (apparently occupied sites) that I’ve marked up across the reserve, between Jubilee Corner and Staple Newk viewpoints....
Posted 07/07/2021 by poppyrummery -
Seabird Productivity Monitoring at Bempton Cliffs: What is it?
Ahead of World Seabird Day tomorrow, our next blog of our seabird series is all about the fantastic productivity monitoring we carry out here and why we do it. So… what is productivity monitoring? Productivity monitoring at Bempton Cliffs Every year ...
Posted 02/07/2021 by poppyrummery -
Spectacular Seabird Monitoring: An introduction
An awful lot of work goes on behind the scenes at Bempton Cliffs. Between staff and volunteers, we conduct a whole host of seabird research here. From colony counts, to productivity monitoring and even tagging and tracking. Through research like this...
Posted 22/06/2021 by poppyrummery
