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Clearing a ditch, RSPB Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Clearing a ditch on the Aber Bog at RSPB Loch Lomond. In the foreground is a mink raft to monitor the occurrence of this invasive non-native and destructive species.
20 January 2017
Brisc conference excursion 2014 examining a mink raft
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Stirlingshire - Aberfoyle
Brisc (Biological Recording in Scotland) conference 2014 excursion to the Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) reintroduction site and habitat in Loch Ard Forest, Stirlingshire. This picture shows a pond created for water voles and Katy Anderson from the Forestry Commission Scotland demonstrating a raft to detect mink footprints. If mink are detected, trapping and dispatch are carried out to protect the water voles. Between 1989 and 1998, the population fell by almost 90%. Hopefully with continued conservation efforts they will escape extinction.
04 October 2014
Northern Minke whale
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Tiree
Northern Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) off Gunna Sound between Coll and Tiree, Argyllshire, looking towards Bac Mòr, or the Dutchman's Cap. The name Minke is thought to be a partial translation of Norwegian minkehval, possibly after a Norwegian whaler named Meincke, who mistook a Northern Minke Whale for a Blue Whale.
06 June 2016
Cormorants on a floating island, RSPB Lochwinnoch
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Renfrewshire - Lochwinnoch
Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) on an artificial raft or floating island at RSPB Lochwinnoch, created for conservation purposes, taken by David Palmar. Mostly these are immature Cormorants with a white breast and a generally greyer appearance, but with one darker adult.
12 December 2021
American mink, Maidens, South Ayrshire
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South Ayrshire - Maidens
American mink (Neovison vison) hunting around an old breakwater at Maidens, South Ayrshire. Mink are predators, killing a wide variety of principally water-side animals - anything from small frogs and fish to water voles and moorhens.
04 February 2018
American mink, Maidens, South Ayrshire
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South Ayrshire - Maidens
American mink (Neovison vison) hunting around an old breakwater at Maidens, South Ayrshire.
04 February 2018
American mink, Maidens, South Ayrshire
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South Ayrshire - Maidens
American mink (Neovison vison) hunting around an old breakwater at Maidens, South Ayrshire. The mink was an accidental or deliberate addition to the British fauna in the 20th century, the result of animals escaping from or being released from fur farms, and is now regarded as an invasive species. Mink have a reputation for destroying more prey than they can possibly eat, including birds and their eggs and young.
04 February 2018
American mink, Maidens, South Ayrshire
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South Ayrshire - Maidens
American mink (Neovison vison) hunting around an old breakwater at Maidens, South Ayrshire. The mink was an accidental or deliberate addition to the British fauna in the 20th century, the result of animals escaping from or being released from fur farms, and is now regarded as an invasive species. Mink have a reputation for destroying more prey than they can possibly eat, including birds and their eggs and young.
04 February 2018
American mink, Maidens, South Ayrshire
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South Ayrshire - Maidens
American mink (Neovison vison) hunting around an old breakwater at Maidens, South Ayrshire.
04 February 2018
Common terns on raft, Port Edgar
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Queensferry
Common terns (Sterna hirundo) nesting on a tern raft at Port Edgar, South Queensferry, Firth of Forth
