Pigeon Guillemots

Amazingly cute birds. Pigeon Guillemots. Red feet. One large white stripe along each wing. Add in a dash of high pitched calls. Rather docile when caught.

Today was day one of our attempt to band a few of the adult birds. Nothing quite like watching the sun rise over the ocean and waiting for the birds come in to gather.

Fairly successful day, caught six birds. One was previously banded a few years ago when a program still existed to band some of the chicks. The hope is that this year 20 or 30 birds will be individually banded with three additional color bands to the one metal band. As such, subsequent resights will be easy to tell which bird is which.




Measuring the wing lengths.



Preparing for release.



Sending the bird off into the sunrise.