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. They jump at sunset to use the darkness as protection against hungry birds of prey.
In the report above, we get a unique insight into the researchers’ work on the beach under the rocks.
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
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
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
