Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Strangford Cormorants

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 Timothy Belmont has had a field day on several islands of Strangford Lough. I will write a full article tomorrow; though in the interim I have pleasure in posting one picture of cormorant chicks on Bird Island (west of Kirkubbin).

We counted 437 cormorant nests on the island.
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2 comments:

  1. Louise Corry2 June 2011 at 04:39

    Are you allowed on Bird Island whilst they are breeding? I thought everyone was banned.

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  2. Timothy Belmont2 June 2011 at 08:20

    A good point.

    The warden explained to me that the National Trust conducts the nest-counting programme on behalf of government authorities, even on private islands.

    EU Directives permit this for statistics on bird population numbers etc.

    So yes, the general public is indeed banned.

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