Craigleith South Web Cam
The Scottish Seabird Centre is a world leader in remote wildlife viewing. The webcam images you are watching are transmitted live, direct from the Seabird Centre’s cameras, which are located on the islands of the Firth of Forth and controlled by visitors at the Centre. The live images refresh every 5-10 seconds.
Craigleith Island
Craigleith is a small island less than 1/2 mile (0.8 kilometres) from the Seabird Centre at North Berwick where a rich variety of seabirds and marine life can be seen. Once one of the largest puffin colonies in Britain with over 28,000 pairs in 1999, numbers had crashed dramatically on Craigleith in recent years, to just a few thousand. This was caused by an alien plant invasion of tree mallow (Lavatera arborea), a giant woody plant which grows up to 9 feet (2.2 metres) tall, choking the puffin burrows and preventing the birds from nesting and rearing their chicks, called “pufflings”.
SOS PUFFIN
With funding from Viridor Credits, the Seabird Centre set up SOS Puffin in January 2007, a five year project to reinstate the puffins on Craigleith, managed by the Scottish Seabird Centre and funded by Viridor Credits. The SOS Puffin team of over 250 volunteers works throughout the year (outwith the puffin nesting season), carefully clearing areas of tree mallow. We're delighted to say that around 98% of the puffin burrows which had been cleared by volunteers were reoccupied by the puffins during the nesting season (April-July) last year. The Seabird Centre is an independent charity and all donations and sponsorships are reinvested in its education and conservation programmes. To find out more about the campaign or to join the team of volunteers, see SOS Puffin. You can also click here to Adopt a Puffin online which will help support the charity. Check out our news section for updates and if you’re interested in volunteering for SOS Puffin email us on info@seabird.org.
Also see the Island Man's website for more about Craigleith Island.
