Seabirds

Discover the range of birds you may spot across Scotland.

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Arctic skua

Stercorarius parasiticus
This is a dark coloured medium sized seabird, with two distinctive long feathers at the middle of the tail.
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Black Guillemot

Cepphus grylie
It's striking black and white plumage and bright red feet make it easy to identify in summer.
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Gannet

These are large to very large seabirds, with long, tapered bodies, long, angular, pointed wings, pointed tails and dagger-like, pointed bills.
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Puffin

Fratercula arctica
An oceanic bird, puffins are summer visitors that arrive to nest between late March and early April in the vast coastal clifftop colonies.
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Arctic Tern

Sterna paradisaea
With its long tail streamers and general shape the Arctic tern deserves the local name of ‘sea swallow’.
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Great Skua

Catharacta skua
The great skua is an aggressive pirate of the seas, deliberately harrassing birds as large as gannets to steal a free meal.
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Guillemot

Uria aalge
The UK’s coasts have many stretches of sheer cliffs where seabirds breed and the guillemot is one of the most numerous birds in the great ‘seabird cities’.
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Manx Shearwater

Puffinus puffinus
A small shearwater, it has long straight slim wings, and is black above and white below.
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Razorbill

Alca torda
The razorbill is a medium-sized seabird. It is black above and white below.
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Storm Petrel

Hydrobates pelagicus
A little bigger than a sparrow it appears all black with a white rump.
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Red Throated Diver

The smallest of the UK's divers, its grey-brown plumage and up-tilted bill readily distinguish it from the other species.
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