Blogs and Podcasts

To mark the beginning of Sea Watch's National Whale and Dolphin Watch (running from 29th July to 6th August) we have a guest blog from Chiara Giulia Bertulli at Sea Watch Foundation detailing how to get involved and take part in your own cetacean spotting session. All you need is safe access to the coast, patience, a lot of enthusiasm, binoculars, a copy of the Seawatch recording forms and a cetacean identification guide. All of this, and more, is explained in the blog.

This blog is the second in our research spotlight series on heat stress in Northern gannet chicks. In this post, Dr Ruedi Nager looks at increasing global temperatures and how this might impact seabirds not just in terms of warming waters but more directly, on land, during their nesting season.

In the first of a series of three blog posts on the impacts of increasing temperatures on Northern Gannet colonies, Dr Jana WE Jeglinski, from the University of Glasgow, details her personal experience of gathering data on the levels of heat stress in gannet chicks on the Bass Rock.

We welcome the current proposal by the Scottish Government to close sandeel fisheries in all Scottish waters. This would bring benefits for sandeel stocks, wider commercial fisheries and many iconic seabirds, seals and cetaceans. Read about why we support this proposal in this blog by our CEO, Susan Davies.