Blogs and Podcasts

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.

The Scottish Seabird Centre work in partnership with North Berwick’s brilliant Beach Wheelchair charity to increase accessibility to the coast and to bring people closer to marine habitats and wildlife. Read about some of the events that have come from this collaboration in this blog by the Scottish Seabird Centre's Conservation Assistant, Emma Marriott.

Coastal estuarine habitats are incredibly important yet often overlooked. Learn more about what groups and communities like Restoration Forth and Green Shores, with the help of Coastal Communities Network, are doing to restore them in this blog by Emma Marriott, our Conservation Assistant.