surtees zeigler bill me is an employee of the reserves he monitors the population of birds and animals and keeps a record. with we're going to ari cameron and top are called we are in luck today the sea is calm and the weather is nice there is a big hurry there are lots of sea birds and there are also many animals sea lions harbor seals and sea otters we will try to take pictures of them. each year about a million birds nest them come on the islands there are real cories on almost all of the coastal cliffs the bird population on top of cove island is one of the most impressive. up to one hundred thousand pairs of tough to. gather in an area of some five hundred square meters they are called northern pirates because of the bright plumage. that each year we catch and tag about a hundred birds it will let me go now i'll have to open its beak it's ok it happens . i'm going to try and take it now it's best to let them get back to their holes or else be taken far beyond the places where the other tells the puffins nest if one of these birds gets into a puffins nest be owned by the gas might