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Recoveries of Gannets (Morus bassanus)
ringed in the Faroe Islands
Fráboðanir um súlur (Morus bassanus) merktar í Føroyum
Jóhannis Danielsen and Jens-Kjeld Jensen
Føroya NáUúrugripasavn, FO-IOOTórshavn, Faroe Islands.
Emails: johannis.danielsen@kollnet.fo; jkjensen@post.olivant.fo
Úrtak
Einasta staðið í Føroyum, har súla eigur, er í Mykinesi
og Mykineshólmi. Fyrstu ringmerkingar av súluni f Før-
oyum vóru í 1931. Síðani tá, eru 909 súlur merktar, og
av teimum hava 30 afturmeldingar verið. Urslitini frá
afturmeldingunum vfsa, at ferðamynstrið hjá føroysku
súluni er líkt tí hjá øðrum norðurevropeiskum súlum.
Tó kann ikki staðfestast frá hesum data, um tær yngru
súlurnar flyta longur burtur frá reiðurplássunum enn tær
gomlu.
Abstract
The only breeding places for Gannets in the Faroe Islands
is on the island of Mykines, and in Mykineshólmi, an
islet just west of Mykines. The first ringing of Gannets
in the Faroe Islands was done in 1931. Since then 909
Gannets have been ringed with 30 recoveries. The
results from the recoveries show, that the migratory
pattern of the Faroese Gannet is similar to that of other
Northern Gannets. It was not possible to conclude from
the recovery data if the younger Gannets migrate larther
away from the breeding colony then the old ones.
Introduction
The only breeding place for Gannets in the
Faroe Islands is on the island of Mykines,
and on Mykineshólmi, an islet just west of
Mykines (Olsen and Permin, 1974) and the
breeding population is approx. 2000 birds
(Heath and Evans, 2000).
The people of Mykines take about 500
young for consumption each year (Fiski-
rannsóknarstovan, 2002), and have been
doing this for more than 200 years. There is
an agreement with the people of Mykines,
that they ring some of the chicks that are too
small for consumption (Jensen and Olsen,
1999).
The first ringing of Gannets was done
11 June 1931, by B. Thorup, who ringed
22 pullus and I adult (Jensen and Olsen,
1999).
Kenneth Williamson, an English officer
stationed in the Faroe Islands in 1941-45,
ringed 114 pullus of Gannets on Mykines,
and got the people of Mykines to continue
the ringing from 1941 to 1945 (Hudson,
1963; Jensen and Olsen, 1999).
Fróðskaparrit 51. bók 2004: 264-269