The air and sea were alive with graceful gannets, bumble-bee-like puffins and delicate shearwaters. |
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, razorbills, and puffins. |
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The removal of these predators has benefitted many other bird species on the islands, including puffins, murres, and auklets. |
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It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins. |
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes. |
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He will also be able to enjoy spectacular scenery and get close to wildlife including basking sharks, dolphins, puffins and gannets. |
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There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard. |
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Scapa Beach has been particularly badly affected, with over 200 guillemots found as well as puffins, razorbills and tysties. |
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And then the slow decline would set in, and then little Foula would be abandoned to the squabbling skuas and the wheeling puffins. |
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Don't miss the chubby, colorful puffins of the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve or the seven million storm petrels found on Baccalieu Island. |
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It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots as well as puffins. |
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That period overlaps with the breeding period for puffins at both colonies. |
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For the first time in nearly a half century, puffins are returning to Ailsa Craig, a plug of volcanic rock off the west coast of Scotland. |
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Various kittiwakes, puffins, cormorants and gulls are common birds found here. |
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes. |
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St Kilda is home to the world's largest colony of gannets and the largest colonies of fulmars and puffins in Britain. |
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In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are the most favoured items of diet. |
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They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs. |
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Rafts of puffins and guillemots bobbed on the glassy surface of the water, and I decided to stay here until we passed the bows of the Inverlane. |
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And rather than go hungry, the birds are preying on other seabirds like puffins and kittiwakes. |
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It reared some 175m above the water, its crevices packed with noisy gannets, puffins, guillemots and gulls. |
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Other island nesting birds, such as puffins and petrels, also were hit hard, but none as badly as the Aleutian Canada goose. |
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Do not let it run free on coastal islands because terns, eider ducks, puffins, and storm petrels are ground nesters. |
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I was expecting to hear waves, wind, drops of water, a few puffins chirping away, perhaps even some crashing sounds as ice falls into the sea. |
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The large offshore rock behind the eastern headland is The Mouls, which is a breeding site for puffins, gannets and kittiwakes. |
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In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are most favoured items of diet. |
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I spent an hour there, waiting for the Dormobile to be excavated, looking for puffins. |
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Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more. |
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Like other puffins, this species has a large, laterally compressed bill. |
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We saw minke whales, hump backed whales, bald eagles, puffins and moose. |
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Some flightless birds, such as living penguins, puffins, and rails, and the extinct auks and phororhacoids, are classified in the Neognathae along with most flying birds. |
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Scotland has seen significant rises in populations of gannets, common gulls and puffins, but other species, such as the arctic tern, are in steep decline. |
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The puffins are the biggest draw but a vast array of other seabirds including tens of thousands of guillemots and razorbills are there during the spring and summer. |
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend. |
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Avian swimmers such as penguins and puffins and ducks and cormorants, as well as sea turtles and other water-dwelling reptiles, must also come up for air. |
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I was expecting to see puffins, exciting divers and a variety of waders. |
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If you are visiting Ocean City, take a birdwatching trip on a charter boat to see shearwaters, skuas, Wilson's storm-petrels, and Atlantic puffins. |
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On Triangle Island, bald eagles are known to depredate tufted puffins. |
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The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas, guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance. |
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I saw my first puffins, a flock swimming in the sea, small birds with big triangular rainbow beaks that look as if they're held on with elastic, like clown noses. |
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Like many auks, puffins eat both fish and zooplankton, but feed their chicks primarily with small marine fish several times a day. |
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There is also huge over-fishing of sand eels, which are the main source of food for puffins. |
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The actress, keen birdwatcher and RSPB patron finally heads north and sets out in search of puffins, otters and gannets on the island. |
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The coasts and surrounding islands are home to colonies of gannets, Manx shearwater, puffins, kittiwakes, shags and razorbills. |
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Fresh fish also features strongly in the traditional local diet, as do seabirds, such as Faroese puffins, and their eggs. |
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On steep mountainsides breed large colonies of auks, puffins, skuas, and kittiwakes. |
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Orkney has an abundance of wildlife, especially of grey and common seals and seabirds such as puffins, kittiwakes, tysties, ravens, and bonxies. |
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Puffins and guillemots also suffered from the collapse of the herring population, especially the puffins on the Lofoten Islands. |
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Sand eels are an important food source for seabirds, including puffins and kittiwakes. |
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The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets. |
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The Journal has reported on hundreds of puffins, guillemots and razorbills being found dead or dying along the North East coast. |
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Families scaled the sheer cliffs to catch gannets, fulmars and puffins and used their oil, feathers and eggs as part payment for their rent. |
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Byrd was recognized for his work to protect marine species of coastal Alaska, such as auklets, puffins, storm petrels and other seabirds. |
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Year-round bird species include murres, auklets, kittiwakes, puffins, guillemots, Kittlitz's murrelet, and gulls. |
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Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge, breeding grounds for thousands of sea birds such as puffins, auklets and murres. |
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Where their burrows are near those of Atlantic puffins, the tick Ixodes uriae is common. |
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The puffins and the rhinoceros auklet are closely related, together composing the subfamily Fraterculini. |
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Although the puffins are vocal at their breeding colonies, they are silent at sea. |
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Iceland is the home to most of the Atlantic puffins with about 10 million individuals. |
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As we approach the steep cliff ridges at Alkefjellet, the sky is thick with clouds of guillemots, little auks and puffins. |
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On the small Icelandic island of Grimsey as many as 200 puffins can be caught in a single morning. |
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The area is home to huge colonies of gannets, puffins, skuas and other seabirds. |
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A variety of seabirds can be seen close to the seaside, which is home to colonies of cormorants, gulls, razorbills, northern gannets, common murres and Atlantic puffins. |
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Marvel at the murres, elders, razorbills, and puffins that occupy the Ile du Corossol bird sanctuary, followed by a visit to a local mussel and scallop farm. |
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Species including puffins, Manx shearwaters, guillemots and razorbills should benefit from the measure agreed by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant. |
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It is renowned for its internationally important seabird colonies, including the world's third largest great skua colony, fulmars, gannets, shags, puffins and guillemots. |
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Where rabbits breed, sometimes Atlantic puffins breed in rabbit burrows. |
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The Skomer and Skokholm islands An important research site, keen bird watchers will be able to see puffins, guillemots, razorbills and manx shearwater. |
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Added to the problem has been overfishing of the Scottish sandeel, further reducing the numbers of this dietary staple for puffins and other local seabirds. |
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The severe weather has also been blamed for the deaths of large numbers of birds, including puffins, razorbills and guillemots, which have been washed up. |
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