Conservationists typically expect to find the carcasses of between six and 12 different bird species over the winter.
This year however a total of 968 guillemots, razorbills, puffins, shags and other species were found washed up on the Island’s beaches.
Dr Glyn Young, a conservation biologist at Durrell Wildlife Park, said he had never seen such a huge number of birds washed up in one season during his 31 years of living in Jersey.
