New BTO project initiated - Gull Positioning System (GPS)

This summer, 50 Lesser Black-backed Gulls breeding on Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire and Walney Island, Cumbria have been kitted out with state-of-the-art GPS tags by scientists from the BTO as part of a project funded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, studying how these birds might use areas of the marine environment earmarked for the development of offshore wind turbines, as well