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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A small group of Cormorants on the Cliffside |
| Image notes: |
Taken high up on one of the Ramna Stacks. |
| Species in Image: |
Cormorant |
| Date: |
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| Area: |
Ramna Stacks |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00395 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Cormorant |
| Latin Name |
Phalacrocorax carbo |
| Shetland Name |
Muckle Scarf (Adult), Brongi (Immature) |
| Latin Group Name |
Pelecaniformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Phalacrocoracidae |
| Common Family Name |
Cormorants |
| Description |
Cormorants favour exposed, difficult to access places to breed. Ramna Stacks at the mouth of Yell Sound is one of the most difficult, in spite of this, all colonies have been counted and breeding numbers seem to be holding up quite well. |
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