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Tim Birkhead's life’s work offers unrivalled insight into seabirds in an era of climate breakdown.
The emeritus professor is now seeking to raise 125,000 to support his guillemot study.
Guillemots are long-lived birds his oldest reached 39 and they pair for life.
During nesting season, 250 bird lovers a day visit Skomer to admire its seabird.
Global heating is causing hotter, wetter and stormier weather, with unseasonal’ storms now striking Skomer during the breeding season and causing seabird wrecks’ mass mortality.
The reason for the north-south divide in the British seabird population trend with northern populations declining is not fully understood.
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