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 A common sight around Scottish fishing boats, the largest colony on NTS property is on Murray’s Isles in the Solway.
Food: Vertebrates and invertebrates, plant material and rubbish and fish at sea by surface plunging and surface diving.
Nest Site: Islets in freshwater lochs, short vegetation preferred, sand dunes, moorlands sometimes in deep heather. Nest on ground either open or partly hidden; material include seaweed, grasses and other vegetation lined with finer material.
Breeding: May to mid June where 3 eggs are laid.
Wintering: Portugal, south-west Spain, north west Africa, and Bay of Biscay.
Distribution: UK, southern Ireland, Faeroes, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Russia.
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