Gannets Galore - a rare landing on Bass Rock with the Scottish Seabird Centre

This episode is a true immersion into a seabird city! Last summer, Our Ocean's host Cal Major had the rare opportunity to land on Bass Rock, a towering island just off the coast of North Berwick, Scotland, which is home to one of the world's largest colonies of Northern Gannets.

Surrounded by a hundred thousand of these graceful yet formidable birds, Emily Burton and Jess Thompson from the Scottish Seabird Centre describe the behaviours and adaptations of the UK's largest seabird, alongside the threats they face and the enormous impact that avian flu had on the colony's population.

To learn more about the Scottish Seabird Centre, how you can visit Bass Rock and how you can help seabirds, please visit their website here.

Here are some links to specific projects we cover in the episode:

Bass Rock Colony Counts: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/bass-rock-colony-counts

SOS Puffin: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/sos-puffin

Island Biosecurity: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/island-biosecurity

Bass Rock Breeding Success: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/bass-rock-breeding-success

This episode was recorded by Cal Major and edited by Adventurous Audio.

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