Qualla: Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory https://qualla.com/bardsey-bird-and-field-observatory en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory https://qualla.com/bardsey-bird-and-field-observatory Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory: Introduction https://qualla.com/bardsey-bird-and-field-observatory/ Eight thousand birds are netted and ringed here every year. Each one is held gently, identified, weighed, measured, fitted with a tiny aluminium ring carrying a unique number and a return address, and then released to continue whatever journey it was on - the next leg of a migration that might take it from Africa to the Arctic, or simply back to a hedgerow on the Llyn Peninsula it had stopped at to feed. Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory has been doing this since 1953. The island it sits on - Ynys Enlli to the Welsh, Bardsey to the English - is two miles off the western tip of Wales, and on the right day in the right weather, more migrating birds funnel through this small piece of land than almost anywhere else in Britain.

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