Seabird Recovery Project Reports

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Seabird Recovery Project Reports

Read the Waste Management Workshop Reports

These reports were written by Jon Ensor to support the Seabird Recovery Project. The co-design process that these reports are based on were undertaken in order to support communities in a process of specifying a preferred way of addressing food waste on their islands.

Food Waste Workshop Report 2024 

Food Waste Workshop Report Summer 2025

Food Waste Workshop Report Winter 2025

Read studies on seabirds and shorebirds conducted on Scilly

View our collection of reports based on seabird and shorebird research from Scilly. These papers have been produced outside of the the regular Seabird Recovery project reports below, and offer a recent historical insight into the seabird and shorebird populations across our islands.

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Heaney & St Pierre 2017 The status of seabirds breeding in Scilly 2015/16

Heaney 2010 Brief Summary of Productivity Results 2006-2010

Heaney et al 2008 Breeding seabirds on Scilly

Lascelles 2006 Roseate Tern species recovery programme - Isles of Scilly 2005 report

Lascelles 2004 Roseate Tern species recovery programme - Isles of Scilly 2004 report

Robinson 2003 The Birds of the Isles of Scilly

Lock 2003 Isles of Scilly Tern recovery project 2003 - 2004

Lascelles 2003 Roseate Tern species recovery programme - Isles of Scilly 2003 report

Robinson & Colombé 2002 Roseate Tern species recovery programme - Isles of Scilly 2002 report

Appleton et al 2002 Lundy Seabird Recovery Project

Heaney et al 2002 Storm Petrel and Manx Shearwater

Durham & Bailey 2001 Bird observations St Agnes and Annet 2001

Robinson & Colombé 2001 Roseate Tern species recovery programme - Isles of Scilly 2001 report

Robinson & Colombé 2000 Roseate Tern species recovery programme - Isles of Scilly 2000 report

Lock 1999 Winter Waterfowl/Waders on Scilly 

Robinson 1999 Storm Petrel in Scilly

Wagstaff 1997 Seabirds on the Isles of Scilly

Wagstaff 1996 Breeding seabirds in Scilly

Robinson 1996 Breeding Gulls in Hugh Town

Lock 1996 Non-breeding wader survey

Robinson 1995 Breeding seabirds in Scilly

Nicholson & Colling 1964 Seabird Conservation in the Isles of Scilly

Robinson 1993 Breeding seabirds in Scilly

Isles of Scilly Seabird Group 1992 Management and research review

Podolsky & Kress 1989 Factors affecting colony formation in Leach's Storm Petrel

Allen 1974 Gulls and other Seabird in Scilly

Parslow 1964 Seabird Conservation in Scilly

Gawen 1940 Charles Gawen Ornithological Field Diary June 1888 entries

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Read the Isles of Scilly Seabird Recovery Project Reports

Find our Seabird Recovery Project Reports dating back to 2006 here. These reports details the surveys taken on Scilly's seabirds to monitor their population and aid our work towards their recovery across our islands.

Read the 2025 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2024 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the Isles of Scilly Seabird Conservation Strategy 2023-2028

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Read the 2023 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2022 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2021 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2020 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2019 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2018 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2017 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2016 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2015 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2014 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2013 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2012 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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Read the 2006-2011 Seabird Recovery Project Report

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