Membership
What are the benefits of joining the Seabird Group?
- Members receive, and are encouraged to contribute to, regular newsletters each year, each full of news and reports on seabird conservation issues and research projects.
- Members also receive an annual, colour journal, Seabird, containing papers and short communications on current research on seabirds of the Atlantic and neighbouring seas.
- The Group organises regular international conferences, attended by seabird workers and enthusiasts from Europe and the rest of the world.
- Members have the opportunity to participate in national surveys and monitoring programmes. The Seabird Group initiated the two censuses of breeding seabirds in Britain & Ireland in 1969-70 and 1985-87. The results of these surveys were published in two books: The Seabirds of Britain and Ireland (1974) and The Status of Seabirds in Britain and Ireland (1991). We also helped establish the Seabird Colony Register, begun in 1985, which collates all information on the numbers of seabirds breeding in Britain and Ireland.
- The Group was part of the SEABIRD 2000 partnership, formed with the objective of updating the Seabird Colony Register by 2002. This was a major project requiring enormous volunteer effort and offered outstanding opportunities to census seabirds along some of Britain’s most spectacular coastlines.
- Members can apply for small grants towards the cost of research or survey projects. In recent years the group has grant aided projects which have included the investigation of: Razorbill demography in northeast Canada; juvenile movements and foraging behaviour in shags on the Isle of May; and productivity and density effects in Skuas on Handa.
