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Common frog (Rana temporaria) in moorland rushes habitat
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Monadhliath
Common frog (Rana temporaria) in moorland juncus rush and grass habitat. It can be distinguished by its blotchy pattern, and by having a dark patch behind the eye.
25 May 2007
Common frog (Rana temporaria) on a Highland moorland
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Monadhliath
Common frog (Rana temporaria) on a Highland moorland. Its brown blotchy colour camouflages it well in the heather moorland environment. It can be distinguished by its blotchy pattern, and by having a dark patch behind the eye.
10 May 2009
Golden Plover, Uig, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria), Uig, Lewis.
20 June 2011
Golden Eagle pair flying against Lewis mountains
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Western Isles - Lewis
Golden Eagle pair flying against Lewis mountains
11 July 2010
Golden Eagle flying against Lewis moorland
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Western Isles - Lewis
Golden Eagle flying against Lewis moorland
11 July 2010
Miurburn around Lochindorb
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Moorland around Lochindorb, Speyside, taken by David Palmar. Muirburn is a management practice in which patches of moorland are burned in rotation, leaving long heather for Red Grouse to nest in and encouraging the growth of short grass for grouse to eat. It is a controversial practice, because it realises carbon into the atmosphere.
18 March 2022
Moorland around Lochindob
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Moorland around Lochindob, Speyside, taken by David Palmar. Lochindorb Castle is on the left.
18 March 2022
View north from Dumyat over the Ochil Hills
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Stirlingshire - Dumyat
View north from Dumyat, showing land use on the Ochil Hills, with a new road and coniferous plantations in the valley of the Menstrie Burn and the Third Inchna Burn.
14 September 2020
Moorland on the way to Cape Wrath
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Sutherland - Cape Wrath and Kyle of Durness
Moorland on the way to Cape Wrath
25 July 2012
Moorland on the way to Cape Wrath
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Sutherland - Cape Wrath and Kyle of Durness
Moorland on the way to Cape Wrath, which passes through MOD land
