JUVENILE AND WINTER PLUMAGE BLACK GUILLEMOTTS(CEPPHYS GRYLLE)MOSTLY A SCOTTISH BIRD IN BRITAIN AROUND 19000 BIRDS,INCREASING IN SHETLANDS.FEEDS ON SAND EELS AND BREEDS IN SMALL WELL DISTRUBUTED COLINIES,SO TENDS NOT TO SUFFER HIGH LOSSES FROM POLLUTION AT SEA LIKE GUILLEMOTTS AND RAZORBILLS WHERE LOTS OF BIRDS GET CAUGHT UP IN OIL SLICKS
BLACK GUILLEMOTTS QUITE A TAXIDERMY RARITY
SUPERB BLACK GUILLEMOTT ON FAUX ROCK AFTER RENOVATION
COMMON GUILLEMOTT OR MURRE(URIA AALGE)FORMERLY ABUNDANT CLIFF FACE NESTING SEABIRD,NOW DECLINING DUE TO POLLUTION,OIL SPILLAGES AND LOSS OF FISH STOCKS.
BLACK GUILLEMOTT OR TYSTIE IN GLASS VICTORIAN DOME
PUFFIN(FRATERCULA ATRICA) THE NORTH ATLANTIC PUFFIN IS A SMALL PIGEON SIZED BIRD WITH A HUGE COLOURFUL BILL IN SUMMERTIME GIVES THE BIRD AN ALMOST CLOWN LIKE APPEARANCE,COMES ASHORE TO BREED IN ROCKY GRASS COVERED ISLANDS,IN SPRING AND EXCAVATES ITS OWN NEST HOLE OR COMMANDEERS OLD RABBIT BURROWS,ANOTHER BIRD VERY DEPENDENT ON FISHING STOCKS,POLLUTION AND NEST PREDATION BY RATS,HEDGEHOGS ECT
PUFFIN IN SUMMER PLUMAGE
JUVENILE PUFFIN IN FIRST WINTER PLUMAGE
RAZORBILL(ALCA TORDA)RESIDENT BREEDER NESTING ON SEA CLIFFS AND STACKS,AND LIVING IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC IN WINTER,A SPECIES VERY DEPENDED ON FUTURE FISH STOCK,EVIDENCE SHOWS REDUCTION IN SCOTTISH NUMBERS,ALSO VERY SUSPECT TO POLLUTION,OIL SPILLS ECT.
CASED LITTLE AUK
LITTLE AUK WINTER PLUMAGE
RAZORBILL(ALCA TORDA)CASED BIRD BY HUTCHINSON
RAZORBILL FROM 1879 CASE
GUILLEMOTT
LITTLE AUK(ALLE ALLE)WINTER VISITOR MAINLY TO EASTERN SEABORD OF THE TO BRITISH ISLES,BREEDS IN THE HIGH ARTIC IN GREENLAN,SPITZBERGEN AND GREENLAND NESTING IN BOULDER SCREE.
LITTLE AUK STUDY SKIN
CASE OF AUKS,RAZORBILL,LITTLE AUK,GUILLEMOTT & PUFFIN,OTHER BIRDS INCLUDE MANX SHEARWATER,KNOT,WATER RAIL AND PINTADO PETREL
MANX SHEARWATER(PUFFINUS PUFFINUS)IN CASE OF BIRDS INCLUDING GANNET AND PUFFIN,ALL THREE OF THESE BIRDS NEST IN BRITAIN ON GRASSY TOPPED ISLANDS OR STACKS,WITH MANX SHEARWATERS AND PUFFINS BOTH DIGGING OR RENOVATING RABBIT OR PREVIOUS BREEDING SEASONS SEABIRDS BURROWS.
CASE OF SEARBIRDS FROM YORKSHIRE
RAZORBILL AND LITTLE AUK
VICTORIAN CASED GUILLEMOTT ON NEST SCENE,FAUX EGG
BRITISH STORM AND WILSONS STORM PETREL
MANX SHEARWATER
WILSONS STORM PETREL AND EUROPEAN STORM PETREL ON NEST SCENE
MANX SHEARWATER
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