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For adding at rewrite if thought appropriate.


During their research Venables & Venables recorded the following species of birds breeding on Foula 1949-50.

Regular and common: Raven; Hooded Crow; Starling; House Sparrow; Twite; Skylark; Meadow Pipit; Rock Pipit; Blackbird; Wheatear; Wren; Shag; Eider; Snipe; Ringed Plover; Oyster Catcher; Herring Gull; Greater Black-backed Gull; Kittiwake; Arctic Tern; Arctic Skua; Razorbill; Common Guillemot; Black Guillemot; Puffin; Manx Shearwater; Fulmar and Rock Dove.

Irregular or rare: House Martin; Peregrine; Merlin; Mallard; Teal; Corncrake; Moorhen; Curlew; Lapwing; Common Gull; Lesser Black-backed Gull; Storm Petrel and Red-throated Diver.

Ghostrider 08:44, 4 December 2007 (MST)

Yep Ghostrider, that is definitely info worth adding to any of the islands. :-)
Robbie 09:23, 4 December 2007 (MST)
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