A beautiful, remote island off the coast of south-west Wales could be your new home - as long as you are happy to count puffins. Skomer Island is a 1.13 sq mile (2.92 sq km) seabird island off ...
A Zoology professor has been dubbed the 'birdman of Skomer' after travelling to the remote island annually for the last 40 years to study its rare guillemots. Professor of behavioural ecology at the ...
It’s 7.45am in west Pembrokeshire and an impromptu convoy is snaking down a back road to nowhere. Delivery drivers scowl in passing places as cars stream past. We’re en route – that’s me and eight ...
Tim Birkhead scrambles over slippery, lichen-covered rocks seemingly unperturbed that the slightest stumble will send him somersaulting into the churning sea far below. He hunkers down in a battered ...
PEMBROKESHIRE, WALES—The first excavation on Skomer Island, known for its puffins and other seabirds, has examined a cooking mound containing fire-cracked stones. “This mound built up from numerous ...
Quite how the voles arrived on Skomer Island is still a mystery as the island is cut off from the mainland by a dangerous stretch of water known as 'Jack Sound' but it is likely that they arrived via ...
More than two thirds of the seal pups on Pembrokeshire's Skomer Island have been killed in recent storms, according to a wildlife charity. Buildings on Skomer and neighbouring Skokholm were severely ...