Men harvesting guga young gannets on Sula Sgeir rocky island, Scotland.

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Preparing to return home from Sula Sgeir a rocky island 50 miles west of Lewis, Scotland, in the North Atlantic. The men of Ness village on Lewis load their harvest of guga onto 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: 5100px × 3391px
Location: Sula Sgeir, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Photo credit: © jeremy sutton-hibbert / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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