Men of Ness on SUla Sgeir annual gannet hunt.

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Preparing to return home from Sula Sgeir a rocky island 50 miles west of Lewis in the North Atlantic the men of Ness village on Lewis lower their harvest of guga over a chute into a fishing boat Sula Sgeir is inhabitated only by sea birds except for 2 weeks each year when men from the village of Ness arrive to cull 2 000 young gannets known as guga.

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Size: 3353px × 5100px
Location: Sula Sgeir, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Photo credit: © jeremy sutton-hibbert / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: annual, controversial, cull, event, gaelic, gannet, gannets, gb, guga, hebridean, hebrides, hunting, outer, scotland, scottish, seabird, sgeir, sula, tradition, traditional, uk