To minimise disturbance we will only have one ringing visit to the colony and we tried to time this to get the majority of the common tern chicks. We had seen a maximum of 8 adults sitting and we managed to ring 10 chicks (likely around half the possible number of young).
Common tern
In addition we also managed to find and ring 6 black headed gull chicks. All birds were also colour ringed (apart from the odd one which was too small) so we hope people will keep an eye out for them.
This is the first time these birds on the islands have been ringed so we are keen to see how this new colony develops.
Finally, many thanks to Tim Ball for joining us and adding these birds to his colour ringing project.
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