Timeline

Project Timeline - Key Dates

2015

2016

May 2016: Coquet’s webcam goes live allowing public to watch the nesting terns between May and August
June 2016: Networking visit to the Netherlands to exchange knowledge about habitat creation in coastal habitats.
August 2016: Trial GPS study on tagging of Arctic terns on the Skerries.

2017

March 2017: Revival of the International Roseate Tern Annual Newsletter
April 2017: Habitat creation in the Western Solent.
June 2017: Deployment of geolocators on twenty roseate terns from Rockabill (Ireland) to find out about their migration routes.
July 2017: Networking visits between LIFE Project and Bretagne Vivante who manage their roseate tern colonies in France.
October 2017: Tern diet and sandeel ecology reports.

2018

January 2018: Restoration of tern island at Cemlyn Bay (Anglesey).
March 2018: Roseate tern demography study reveals factors driving the population growth at Rockabill, Lady’s Island Lake and Coquet Island.
April 2018: Placing a tern raft in Port Edgar Marina in the Firth of Forth (Scotland)
May 2018: Report by Centre of African Wetlands on the status of illegal trapping at key wintering sites along Ghanaian coast.
June 2018: Networking visit to Azores.
July 2018: Boat tracking study of roseate tern foraging behaviour on Rockabill and deployment of geolocators on Coquet Island.
November 2018: Restoration of Blue Circle Island on Larne Lough (Northern Ireland).

2019

2020