Joe Pender Wildlife Photography

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Ringing Storm Petrels at sea.











On Friday night / Saturday morning we set about to catch and ring Storm petrels from the boat at sea . The lads that came over to do the ringing managed to ring 20 Storm Petrels by playing their call over a loud speaker they also tried Wilsons petrel which was one of the target birds as they have never been caught or ringed in british waters but no luck this time.

2 comments:

  1. Stunning little bird,better luck next time for the Wilsons.
    John.

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  2. fascinating stuff.seems a very delicate operation to ring them.

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