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Highland cattle
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Coll Northwest
Highland beef cow, Arnabost, Coll. The Victorians preferred ginger and started breeding selectively to maximise reddish stock, resulting in the prevalence of that colour today. This one is the captain of the Coll football team, and is strutting about on the pitch!
27 April 2014
Black cow, Munsary, Caithness
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Caithness - Munsary Peatlands Plantlife Reserve
Black cow, near Munsary Plantlife nature reserve, Caithness. The upturned horns suggest a Highland cow. Highland cows are not always ginger and can come in black, brindle, red, yellow, and dun.
16 July 2017
The Coll football team
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Coll Northwest
The Coll football team consists of Highland beef cattle, here playing at Arnabost, Coll. Highland cows are not always ginger and can come in black, brindle, red, yellow, and dun. There is considerable difference of opinion among breeders as to which is preferable.
27 April 2014
Highland cattle
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Coll Northwest
Highland beef cattle, Arnabost, Coll. This is the rest of the football team. A group of Highland cattle is not called a herd, but a 'fold' instead - named after the open shelters they can be kept in over winter.
27 April 2014
Highland beef cattle, Coll
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Coll Northwest
Highland beef cattle with supplementary feeding in a pastoral landscape with rough grazing on the rocky hills behind, Coll.
25 April 2014
Highland bull, Tiree
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Tiree
Highland bull, Tiree
26 September 2013
Highland bull, Ardardan
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Argyllshire - Ardmore, Helensburgh, Garelochhead and Rosneath
Highland bull, Ardardan, Cardross. The Victorians preferred ginger and started breeding selectively to maximise reddish stock, resulting in the prevalence of that colour today.
08 January 2014
Highland Bull, Ardnamurchan
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Ardnamurchan
A Highland bull with typically magnificent horns and very long hair, on the road to Anamurchan Point.
09 June 2007
Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer) on a west Highland sea loch
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South Knapdale
A winter plumage Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer) on a west Highland sea loch. Note the backward-pointing triangle of white on the neck, a diagnostic feature of this species.
30 January 2011
Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) eating a fish in a west Highland sea loch
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South Knapdale
Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) hauled out on to a rock in a west Highland sea loch to eat a large fish.
