The ringers from Belvide have visited Nan Ron over the last week or so. Averaging about 300 new birds a night with about 20% more due to retraps, including some Norwegian ringed birds, they also collected some Barn Owl pellets and looked for rings. They found nine Storm Petrel rings of birds originally ringed on Nan Ron - in 2006, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016(3), 2017, and 2019. If convention is followed all of the birds, except the bird from 2019, must have been adults breeding on Nan Ron.
So the Barn Owls are still present on the island, and they are still eating Storm Petrels as part of their diet. Hopefully, might be able to update this.....
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