My undergraduate work led me to focus on one species of gull, the Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), for my master's thesis research.
For this work, although I still spent a lot of time at the dump, I also got to carry out research into the gull's breeding biology at a colony off the southwest coast of Ireland on Cape Clear Island.
Cape Clear Island is part of the Gaeltacht (the Gaelic-specking part of Ireland) and the scenery is very much what Americans think of when they imagine what Ireland looks like with rocky hills and the sea.
Papers resulting from the research on Great Black-backed Gulls are listed below.
Buckley, N. J. and T. C. Kelly 1994. Breeding biology of Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinus at a declining colony: Cape Clear Island, Co Cork. Irish Naturalists Journal. 24: 388-392.
Buckley, N. J. 1992. Birds
and landfills: problems and possible solutions.
Pages 199-204 in Proceedings of the
8th Annual Southwestern Regional Solid Waste Symposium. Solid Waste Association of North America publication # GR-G
0252.
Buckley, N. J. 1990.
Diet and feeding ecology of Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus
marinus) at a southern Irish breeding colony.
Journal of Zoology (Lond.) 222: 363-373.
Buckley, N. J. 1990. A partial census of the breeding seabirds of Cape Clear Island 1986. Cape Clear Bird Report 20: 48-53.
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