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The team at the Scottish Seabird Centre have spotted puffins returning to islands in the Firth of Forth on their live cameras for the first time this year. An important site for seabirds, the Forth is home to the largest colony of breeding puffins on the East Coast of Scotland, the Isle of May, as well as one of the world’s largest colonies of Northern gannets on the Bass Rock. This first sighting is an exciting and hopeful reminder that the seabird breeding season is about to begin, particularly after a rough and stormy winter that saw thousands of dead puffins washing up on coastlines around Europe.

Berwick Bank windfarm, which is predicted to kill tens of thousands of seabirds, has been awarded public subsidy.

Stunning new photography exhibition opens at the Scottish Seabird Centre this weekend (21 November). As part of the Charity’s 25-year celebrations, the exhibition showcases images of all 23 of Scotland’s breeding seabird species. While celebrating the diversity of seabirds that return to Scotland’s shores each spring to breed, it delivers a powerful message about the precarious nature of their survival. 70% of the species featured are in decline and many, like the Atlantic puffin, are at risk of global extinction.

Five nature charities are today calling on Scotland’s First Minister to stop what could be the “world’s deadliest windfarm for birds” being built. Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other individual wind farm on the planet, according to the RSPB and conservation partners.