Ailsa Craig, a seabird colony mostly for Northern Gannets, Morus bassanus (fka Sula bassana) in the Firth of Clyde,off the coast of Southwest Scotland
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5300 x 3534 px | 44.9 x 29.9 cm | 17.7 x 11.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
7 June 2009Location:
Ailsa Craig, Ayrshire, Scotland, UKMore information:
Hundreds of the thousands of Northern Gannets, Morus bassanus, which nest on Ailsa Craig, a granitic extrusion island nine miles off the Ayrshire mainland in the Irish Sea. It is currently a bird sanctuary managed by the RSPB, particularly for its Northern Gannet colony. It is the site of a famous and successful rat eradication programme in the 1990s, since when the numbers of species and of individual birds has risen considerably.