| SEA BIRDS & SEA LIFE
 From the largest (gannet) to the smallest (storm
petrel), Skellig seabirds - the hand-made models of David Mower - are
resident in the Skellig Experience exhibition, living happily
in a cliff environment of real rocks of the same Devonian sandstone as
Skellig!
Genuine seabirds’ eggs – recovered by divers from
underwater where the eggs had fallen from precarious nesting ledges –
are part of the scene.
The seabirds’ amazing migratory journeys are also
depicted in this exhibition: gannets to Portugal, shearwaters to South
America, and storm petrels – Europe’s smallest seabirds – to the warm
waters of South Africa for winter vacations!
“Stormy”, one Skellig storm petrel, so long-lived
as to earn inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records, undertook this
annual, return journey – 10,000km each way - for 26 years, and the
well worn ring which she wore for this entire period – is in the
exhibition today. “Stormy” was subsequently given a new ID as she set
off to South Africa for the 27th time!
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