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Conservationists hope by clearing St Agnes and Gugh, the seabird population will be significantly restored.
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He was warned by a RSPB warden that landing on the seabird sanctuary was prohibited and he should not go near the birds.
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Two brothers have been found guilty of disturbing of a colony of Britain's rarest breeding seabird on Coquet Island off the Northumberland coast.
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After seabird feathers became the ornament of choice for ladies' hats and coats in the 19th century, milliners all but plucked the species clean.
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He was warned by a RSPB warden that landing on the seabird sanctuary was banned and he should not go near the 71 breeding birds.
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On the dry seabird islands off the South American and South African coasts, immense deposits of bird droppings, rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, had accumulated over centuries.
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The Wee Bankie is a rich sandeel ground some 40 kilometres (25 miles) out to sea but still well within the feeding range of local seabird breeding colonies.
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The main island, Hirta, once supported Britain's most remote community, with the inhabitants surviving for centuries on the seabird population, subsistence agriculture and eating dishes such as baked puffin.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) looks after the colony, which it describes as a "bustling seabird city, with puffins, black guillemots, razorbills and peregrines some of the special residents".
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The project has a number of aims to protect and restore the seabird population - including the storm petrel and the Manx shearwater - for which the UK has a global responsibility, say conservationists.
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Other attractions which performed well in 2007 included the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick, which saw an increase in visitor numbers of 26.3%, and St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, which experienced an increase of 21.4%.
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