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had on a number of the species is becoming apparent to the rangers who monitor and help the birds here. the rock base over there, there would normally be double the guillemots over there. you know, you wouldn t won t actually see the the rock because there d be so many. despite the good news that there s no sign of the bird flu, we have had some quite catastrophic declines in some of our other seabirds. many of them were late in arriving because of a cold early start to the season. our shags in particular, they ve done really badly. we ll be down 85% on last year. we found only 31 shag nests and last year, it was over 200. guillemots also, we reckon we re probably down by 46% as well. more than 9,000 birds were lost to avian flu on the farne islands, and the disease, combined with the pandemic, means a full census of the breeding birds here hasn t been carried out in five years. so, this year s count means they can hopefully now work out a fuller picture of the impact on species like t

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