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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
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
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