Already two groups of others have visited Nan Ron in order to ring Storm Petrels. Our visit gets closer, with much anticipation following our Covid induced absence of 2020. So far twelve are billed to attend with four being new to island and nocturnal ringing.
This year, following a small grant from the Seabird Group <www.seabirdgroup.org.uk> we shall be undertaking some stormie sexing studies, in addition to our usual biometrics and ageing. Sexing of storm petrels is 'challenging', to the extent that many do not undertake it, and ageing is subjective, so again missed. It is our hope that we can produce some guidelines and morphometrics (including photographs) to enable the ageing and sexing of storm petrels around the latitudes of northern Scotland.
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