This year’s live broadcast tracking the breeding of the common murres at Stora Karlsö in the Baltic sea has now begun. New for this year is the option to listen to the seabirds as well. “It feels like we’ve only scratched the surface of the common murres’ soundscape,” according to a press release.
For a few weeks in late June and early July, thousands of baby birds jump from the cliffs of Stora Karlsö – before they have learned to fly
The sound on the beach is deafening. Using the word cacophony feels enticing, but on reflection, symphony feels like the right choice of words. On Stora Karlsö, the birds live in symbiosis with each other
When society was put on pause during the pandemic, many people's opinion was that nature and wildlife would now have a chance to recover. But for the herring pigs on Stora Karlsö, it was the other way around – the missing tourists
Jonas Hentati Sundberg is a marine biologist and has been researching guillemots, on Stora Karlsö, for almost two decades. When the island was closed down to tourists during the pandemic, he discovered something fascinating: The guillemots needed the tourists to survive
