Ailsa Craig, a seabird colony mostly for Northern Gannets, Morus bassanus (fka Sula bassana) in the Firth of Clyde,off the coast of Southwest Scotland

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Hundreds of the thousands of Northern Gannets, Morus bassanus, which nest on Ailsa Craig, a granitic extrusion island nine miles off the Ayrshire mainland in the Irish Sea. It is currently a bird sanctuary managed by the RSPB, particularly for its Northern Gannet colony. It is the site of a famous and successful rat eradication programme in the 1990s, since when the numbers of species and of individual birds has risen considerably.

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Location: Ailsa Craig, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Elizabeth Leyden / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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