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Puffin Island, Anglesey : Bird & Landscape

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Puffin island fossils of western cliffs

Horizontal bedding of Puffin Island West cliffs with herring gulls. July 1975
Marys species name: Herring gull
Scientific name: Larus argentatus
Common name: Herring gull

Date: July 1975

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Puffin Island. Cormorants (W) Fulmar, Shags

Part of big cormorant colony below Herring Gulls. East Puffin Island 1975
Marys species name: Cormorant
Scientific name: Phalacrocorax carbo
Common name: Cormorant

Date: 1975

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Puffin Island. Cormorants (W) Fulmar, Shags

Shags, Herring Gulls, Puffin Island July 1968
Marys species name: Shag
Scientific name: Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Common name: Shag

Date: July 1968

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Puffin Island Auks

Herring Gulls occupy much of plateau of Puffin Island, lesser black backs rare, greater black backs in distance. 28/07/75
Marys species name: Herring Gull
Scientific name: Larus argentatus
Common name: Herring Gull

Date: 28/07/1975

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Puffin Island selection

Puffin Island. 1200 x 300 yards. 193 foot high. Auks and kittiwakes and shags left, cormorants right. 1/2 mile from Anglesey.
Marys species name: Kittiwakes
Scientific name: Rissa tridactyla
Common name: Black-legged Kittiwake

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre (SEWBReC)
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Dr Mary Gillham
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