News and stories from the NTS team on St Kilda, a dual UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Acrocephalus warbler ID can be tricky, but easier when seen well. Marsh Warbler from 26th-28th May- a 7th St Kilda record, and 4th since 2022. Seabird volunteer Jeremy has been involved in multiple spring acro records in recent years and managed this excellent image.
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A second flock of 6 Bar-tailed Godwits on 29th Apr included this colour-ringed female, ringed in the Dutch Wadden Sea on 10th May 2011. The @niozsearesearch.bsky.social ringing project has informed us that this is the most NW observation from 9,500 barwits ringed and almost 70,000 observations!
The leucistic Common Snipe on #StKilda last autumn is back around the Manse again this year! A lovely pale flash among the richer browns of its counterparts.
Grateful to any visitors this season that are able to photograph any of @jezierskimt.bsky.social 's colour-ringed birds in the Village. If you're able to read a darvic ring, please report the alphanumeric code, time and location to NTS staff for contribution to Michal's research 🙏
An impressive total of 41 species recorded for #GlobalBigDay yesterday here on #StKilda. The day list has been submitted to #ebird. The highlight was this very pale Redpoll, thought to be A. f. islandica, a first record of this subspecies here.
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Rare to see a Quail out in the open like this. Initially spotted on 30th May and present again yesterday, this is the 11th St Kilda record.
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Bonxies (Great Skua) were heavily impacted globally by HPAI in 2021/22, with 2/3 of the population on #StKilda succumbing to the virus. We've been conducting a census annually since then, with results suggesting relative stability since the dramatic decline.
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Scanning through this morning's flock of 11 Wigeon and a Red-breasted Merganser, but one of them has a green head!
American Wigeon is a second for #StKilda, after the first in 2011.
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Yesterday's 6 Bar-tailed Godwits represented the first record of this species on #StKilda since 2009.
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This Little Ringed Plover was a nice surprise at the Helipad in Village Bay this afternoon. A third for #StKilda, with the previous two in 1977 and 2022, and possibly only the fifth Outer Hebrides record!
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St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS
What next? Well, I just slept for 10h, after returning from a month of fieldwork. We've set up a ringing project of St Kilda's Wrens + other passerines, supported by @stkildawhs.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @leverhulme.ac.uk. With this, we hope to study how island syndromes evolve.
