Guardian: Tim Birkhead has been monitoring guillemots for 42 years with intriguing results. His surveys, carried out on Skomer island in Wales, have provided key information about the wellbeing of the sea birds population around the British Isles and has also produced important insights into the health of our seas.
However, the zoologists four-decade-long project is now threatened with closure. The newly formed quango Natural Resources Wales has said it will not continue to fund the 12,000-a-year survey,...