SHANGRALA'S
FARNE
ISLANDS
WILDLIFE!
The National Nature Reserve is home to an internationally important breeding
colony of thousands of seabirds and Grey seals. The Farne Islands are off the
coast of northeast England and are home to a huge seabird colony. Historically,
the islands have strong links with Celtic Christianity and St Cuthbert, who
lived here in the 7th Century.
The islands are owned and protected by the British conservation charity, the
National Trust,
which says the islands host some 23 species of seabird, as well as a substantial
colony of grey seals, who come to have their pups there in the autumn. Every
five years the National Trust carries out a census of the islands' population
of puffins.
The Farne Islands are possibly the most exciting seabird colony in England with
unrivalled views of 23 species, including around 43,000 pairs of puffin.
It's also one of the most important grey seal pupping sites in England, with
more than 2,000 pups born every autumn.
Counting Puffins and other seabirds. Enjoy! :)
Rangers remove a puffin from its burrow.
A ranger measures an Artic Tern chick.
An Artic Tern dive bombs a ranger.
An Artic Tern feeds its chick.
An Artic Tern swoops down from the sky.
A Puffin is seen with Sand Eels in its beak.
A Puffin shakes off the rain.
Rangers release shag chicks after
attaching identification rings to them.
A shag protects its young.
A ranger catches a shag chick to
attach an identification ring.
Grey seals play underwater.
A grey bull seal lies in a water pool.
Grey seal bulls fight for territory and females.
A female grey seal nuzzles her newborn calf.
Head ranger David Steel sprays a seal pup
with pigment so that it can be counted as
part of a census on Brownsman Island,
which is part of the Farne Islands.
Seals lie on Brownsman Island.
Inner Farne - part of the Farne Islands,
is seen off the Northumberland coast,
northern England, taken on July 19
A Guillemot swims underwater
by the Farne Islands.
(All Above Photos - Nigel Roddis/Reuters)
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