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November 2015
The
colony of northern gannets on Les Etacs, a rock off the west coast of Alderney,
has grown since two birds first nested in 1940
The
first nationally accredited bird observatory in the Channel Islands will be
located in Alderney, if a pilot scheme is successful.
The
Alderney Wildlife Trust, with the help of the British Trust for Ornithology,
will launch the pilot observatory next year.
The
Wildlife Trust hopes to meet the required level of excellence for accreditation
by 2018.
Manager
Roland Gauvain said: "It is an exciting project."
There
are already 19 observatories in the UK and Ireland, which enable researchers to
monitor bird populations and migration patterns.
However,
Mr Gauvain said that there was a "relatively small" number of
observatories on islands, which includes the islands of Farne and the Calf of
Man.
He
said Alderney was in the unusual location of being close to the French
continent where it could see a large number of birds in a small area.
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