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Barnacle Geece

Barnacle Geece

01/12/2008

The trouble with a scarce species that likes to congregate in a small area is that it fails to convey a proper impression of its rarity. The barnacle goose, for example, has only three breeding centres; in north-east Greenland, Svalbard and in Novaya Zemlya/Vaigach Island. Each population has a traditional wintering ground: the Svalbard birds come to the Solway Firth, the Russian ones go to the Netherlands and those from Greenland head, as their first port of call, to Islay

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The Oban Times Scottish Field Magazine
 
Stalking in Strathmore

Stalking in Strathmore

28/11/2008

Stalking in its heyday might with justification have been called ‘The King of Sports’. The nobility of the stag, his strength, fleetness, alertness and bold outlook has appealed down the centuries.

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The Argyllshire Advertiser Eilean Iarmain Hotel on Skye.
 
Budongo Trail

Budongo Trail

17/11/2008

Ricky is one of the lucky few. He’s 47 now and has spent all but the first five years of his life safely housed in the air-conditioned warmth of Edinburgh Zoo. When he was a baby he was snatched from his mother somewhere in Africa and taken as a shipboard pet.

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The Campbeltown Courier Craigellachie Hotel on Speyside
 
Eider

Eider

17/11/2008

These sea ducks are most gregarious, not only in the sheltered estuaries where they display in spring, but even on land where they nest. At the Royal Navy’s base at Coulport up to 81 nests have been recorded in an area just 90 by 25 metres. The drake helps in the selection of a nest site, but the duck is responsible for incubation and care of the ducklings.

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The Arran Banner Sillycat Media
 

Badgers

26/08/2008

The badger’s distinctive black and white striped face and short, squat body makes it one of the most appealing and popular animals in Britain and yet people rarely encounter this shy, nocturnal creature. Fiona MacGillivray journeyed to the beautiful Birks of Aberfeldy where she was privileged to observe the antics of Meles meles.

 

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Old Postcards from Fort William. National Trust for Scotland
 

The Golden Eagle

19/08/2008

Roger Broad has what must be one of the most exhilarating – and perilous – jobs in Scotland. As an RSPB eagle expert he gets the opportunity to visit some of the wild beauty of the Highlands and Islands, keeping track of the great birds, monitoring the success of their nesting attempts and, where ever possible, placing metal identifi cation rings around the legs of their eaglets.

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The Town House Company
 

The Capercaillie

11/08/2008

The Capercaillie was, until very recently, among the birds and animals, with the dubious distinction of being included on the so-called 'Quarry List', a record of fair game, that is, wild creatures which can be legally shot by sporting hunters in Scotland.

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Wildcats

11/08/2008

It comes as something of a surprise to discover that Scotland is home to one of Europe’s most elusive predators, the Wildcat, and even more of a shock to learn that it may be on the brink of extinction. It is in fact one of the world’s most endangered cats. RSPB Scotland’s David Sexton has made a special study of the wildcats, which survive in the remote and largely uninhabited forests of Caithness and Sutherland. Angus Urquhart reports.

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Fair Isle

08/08/2008

In his diary of 1870 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: "The coast of Fair Isle is the wildest and most unpitying that we have seen. Continuous cliffs, from one to 400 feet high, tower by huge voes and echoing caverns, line the bare downs with scarcely a curve of sand or a practicable cleft in the belt of iron precipices.

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Red Kites

08/08/2008

The Red Kite is among the most elegant of all Scotland’s birds of prey.


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