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Herring Gull in flight with a crab in its beak
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Chanonry Point, Moray Firth and Beauly Firth
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) in flight while readjusting a crab in its beak, Moray Firth
27 July 2012
Herring Gull in flight with a crab in its beak
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Chanonry Point, Moray Firth and Beauly Firth
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) in flight with a crab in its beak, Moray Firth
27 July 2012
Otter eating a crab
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South Knapdale
Otter (Lutra lutra) eating a crab, Argyllshire
02 June 2011
Otter eating a crab
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South Knapdale
Otter (Lutra lutra) eating a crab, Argyllshire
02 June 2011
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
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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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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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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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.