Fratercula arctica – PAL – Breeding summer visitor

Year	First sighting	Last sighting	Skokholm max count	Skomer max count	Notes see below
1981
1982			3710
1983		28 December	3500
1984	22 March	25 October	3668	c.7000+ pairs
1985					(1)
1986
1987
1988
1989			2175	c.5700 pairs
1990			c.2000-2500 pairs	c.5000-6000 pairs
1991			4432	c.5000-6000 pairs
1992			2505	c.5000-6000 pairs
1993	6 March earliest recorded	5 December	2,145 in April 6,209 in July	c.11,000 spring c.18,000 in July	(2)
1994
1995	21 March	19 August (Skomer)	2,700 in spring	10,473 in spring
1996	24 March	27 September	3,332 on 7 April 5,275 in July	9,141 in spring 11,869 in summer	(3)
1997	21 March	24 September	3,250 in spring	9,049 in spring
1998	5 Jan (Strumble)	17 Oct (Strumble)	2,774 on 1 April	9,235 in spring
1999	20 March	30 Sept (Strumble)	3,083 in spring	9,213 in spring
2000			3,092 in spring	10,614 in spring	(4)
2001	15 March	31 Oct (Strumble)		7,854
2002	6 Feb (Strumble)	7 Nov (Strumble)	c.4,000	10,338
2003	19 March	9 Oct (Strumble)		8,537 in May 21,292 in July
2004	13 March	6 Oct (Strumble)		10,688 on 14 May
2005		25 Oct (Strumble)		10,717 on 6 May
2006		27 Dec (Wooltack)	4,510	10,876
2007		17 Sept (Strumble)	4,900 AOS	11,821 on 4 April
2008	19 March	14 August (with fish)		10,487
2009		12 July (Strumble)		13,508 in spring
2010				12,577
2011		17 Dec (Strumble)
2012				11,479
2013			4,834	19,280
2014	26 March	17 August	5,070 on 10 April	18,237
2015			6,645 on 14 May	21,349
2016	4 Feb (Ramsey)	21 Oct (Pwll-deri)	6,692	22,539
2017	23 March	14 Oct (Strumble)	7,800 in May	25,227
2018	13 March	21 Sept (Strumble)	8,762	30,895
2019	1 March	5 Sept (Strumble)	7,447	24,108
2020	16 March	5 September	8,534	34,796

(1) 291 found oiled during the Bridgeness incident

(2) Leucistic bird on Skokholm

(3) No puffins affected by Sea Empress oil spill, as this predated their arrival

(4) All white bird on Skomer

Records extracted from the Pembrokeshire bird reports

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