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Three adult black guillemots ringed

18/6/2015

Yesterday we went to the islands again and I am happy to say that there are already several little chicks born although most nests still only contain eggs. We were lucky enough to find three adults which we equipped with a metal ring and a colour ring. Hopefully they will be seen this winter! Unfortunately we found two dead black guillemots, both adults. One seemed to have been crushed by a falling rock, but we could not determine what happened with the other one. We also found two dead lesser black-backed gulls... is there enough food about?

We placed 15 camera traps on the islands so hopefully we get some nice material again this year!

Me ringing a black guillemot (Picture taken by Anna Halmen)

Winning picture

18/6/2015

Perhaps not very special, but I thought it nice anyway that one of my bird pictures (a barnacle goose gosling on the rocks) won a price in a local newspaper! Perhaps I can invest in a good camera now;)

Scrirev reviewing the review process

4/6/2015

I recently came across Scrirev, which is created to review the peer review process of scientific journals. Excellent! I recommend everybody to use it. Although many scientific journals state on their website how long the process takes on average, things always seem to take longer when I send in a paper (with the exception of Plos One, which indeed was very fast). I recently had one relatively good experience with a journal and an extremely bad experience (other than being rejected). It is nice to actually share these experiences with other people that want to publish their research. The website can be found here.

Three adult black guillemots ringed

Winning picture

Scrirev reviewing the review process

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