How researchers tell St Kilda’s penguins apart for banding

How volunteer penguin banding at St Kilda works, and how researchers tell individual little penguins apart across years of monitoring.
What a healthy pre-moult weight looks like for St Kilda’s penguins

Why researchers weigh St Kilda’s little penguins before moulting, what a healthy pre-moult weight looks like, and what a light bird tells them.
Inside the volunteer monitoring and banding work at St Kilda

What volunteer monitoring and banding actually involves at the St Kilda breakwater, and why this quiet, decades-long work matters for the colony.

