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Male Goosander on Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Male Goosander (Mergus merganser) on Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow, displaying with its beak pointing upwards.
09 January 2011
A pair of Arctic Terns, TIree
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Tiree
A pair of Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea), taken by Rebecca Dickson. These birds were observed strengthening their bond by sharing a small fish on the beach.
12 May 2024
Female Blackbird with a black beak, Pitlochry
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Pitlochry, Loch Faskally and Ben Vrackie
Female Blackbird (Turdus merula) with a black beak, Pitlochry, either a juvenile or a migrant, possibly from Scandinavia.
23 November 2019
Blue Tit with sunflower seed in its beak, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
A Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) with a sunflower heart in its beak. The bird visits a feeder for a few seconds, grabs a seed, then retreats to a bush where it can consume the seed safely. Taken by David Palmar in a Kelvindale, Glasgow garden. behind the bird is a hanging nest or resting hole.
30 January 2022
Puffin with sand eels, Isle of May
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Firth of Forth - Isle of May
Puffin (Fratercula arctica) with five sand eels in its beak, Isle of May, taken by Rebecca Dickson
01 August 2021
Juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gull , Isle of May
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Firth of Forth - Isle of May
Juvenile Lesser Black backed gull (Larus fuscus) with its beak open, Isle of May, taken by Rebecca Dickson. The bristly appendages inside its mouth seen on its upper jaw are not teeth in the proper sense, but are spines raked backwards to help the gull keep control of slippery fish it is eating or (when it grows up to be a parent), for retaining fish to feed its young. The tongue has a backward-facing barb useful for moving food into its gullet.
01 August 2021
Juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gull , Isle of May
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Firth of Forth - Isle of May
Juvenile Lesser Black backed gull (Larus fuscus) with open beak, Isle of May, taken by Rebecca Dickson. The bristly appendages inside its mouth seen on its upper jaw are not teeth in the proper sense, but are spines raked backwards to help the gull keep control of slippery fish it is eating or (when it grows up to be a parent), for retaining fish to feed its young. The tongue has a backward-facing barb useful for moving food into its gullet.
01 August 2021
Red-necked Grebe with beak open, Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena) on Hogganfield Loch with its beak open, taken by Rebecca Dickson.
12 September 2020
Skylark, Kirkbuster, Stronsay
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Orkney - Stronsay
Skylark (Alauda arvensis), Kirkbuster, Stronsay, Orkney, with food in its beak, showing evidence of breeding
08 July 2019
85-0659 Hen Harrier chick, Kilpatrick hills
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CEP - Glasgow
Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) chick in the Kilpatrick Hills. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1985.
