Birds

Shag

The Common Shag or European Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) search for food in the sea, and unlike the Cormorant, it is very rare further inland.The Shag make very deep dives and dives down to 45 meters deep have been observed. Favorite food is the sand eel. The birds move long distances between the plaes for food search and the place where they spend the night. They nest along the coast on cliffs, in rock-pools or small caves. The nest consists of a single sloppy pile of seaweed or twigs that are cemented together with the bird's own guano.

European Shag

Snowy Owl

Snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) is an owl occurring in the tundra around the Arctic coasts. It is found in Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Scotland, in the Scandinavian mountain chain, Finland, and Russia. Most breed in Siberia, Alaska and Canada and only a handful in Europe.
The Snowy Owl nests above the tree line, on heaths and similar vast, open areas with slightly undulating terrain. The bird places its nest on the ground that consists of a uppskrapad pit on top of a pile of stones, but it can also nest in abandoned eagle nests.
Snowy owls live almost exclusively on rodents like lemmings and voles, but sometimes also takes birds, especially grouse.

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Garganey

The Garganey (Anas querquedula) is a migratory bird that breeds locally throughout most of the Western Palearctic and winters in northern tropical areas of East and West Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The Garganey lives of insects, crustaceans, molluscs, seeds and aquatic plants. Above all, the Garganey prefer animal food. The birds take their food directly from surface or shallow subsurface.

Red Grouse

The Red Grouse ( Lagopus lagopus scotica) is different from the Willow Grouse and Ptarmigan in its plumage which is red brown and that it does not have a white winter plumage. The Red Grouse is endemic to the British Isles, it has evolved in isolation from other subspecies of the Willow Grouse, which is widespread in northern parts of Eurasia and North America. It is available in most parts of Scotland, including Orkney, Shetland and most of the Outer Hebrides. The Red Grouse is known as the logo for The Famous Grouse whiskey.

The Red Grouse
is a famous grouse

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Hen Harrier

The Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) or Northern Harrier is a migratory bird that breeds across the northern parts of the northern hemisphere, in Canada, USA and northern Eurasia. In winter, the palearctic populations move to more southern areas of Europe, northern Africa and temperate Asia, and occurs as far north as southern Sweden and northern Britain. The nearktiska populations moving to the more southern parts of the United States, to Mexico and Central America. In the milder breeding areas, such as France, Britain and southern U.S. species can occur year round. Hen Harrier is a bird of prey that breeds in heathland and wetlands, but even in rural cultivation in Eurasia.
The hen harriers place their nests directly on the ground.
The hen harrier hunts small mammals and birds by surprise attacks, by slowly gliding over fields and moors. This harrier tends to be a very vocal bird while it glides over its hunting ground.

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Arctic Loon

Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) is known as Arctic Loon in North America and Black-throated Diver in Eurasia.
Arctic loon nests in Scotland, Scandinavia, the Baltics, eastward through Siberia in Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Alaska. The Arctic loon is a bird which nests in clear fish-filled lakes in the interior or in bays and moving in winter to marine areas.
The bird places its nest on the ground, often on a tuft on the beach or a short distance up on land.

Arctic Loon

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Black Skimmer

The Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar birds species in the skimmer family. It breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of the Caribbean and the tropical and subtropical Pacific coasts, but the South American races make only shorter movements in response to annual floods which extend their feeding areas in the river shallows. Skimmers have a light graceful flight, with steady beats of their long wings. They feed usually in large flocks, flying low over the water surface with the lower mandible skimming the water for small fish, insects, crustaceans and molluscs caught by touch by day or especially at night.

Razorbill

Razorbill (Alca torda) is most common in the Arctic Circle. Its breeding grounds are islands, rocky shores and cliffs located along the shores of the North Atlantic, eastern North America as far south as Maine, and in Western Europe from northwestern Russia to the north of France. North American birds are migrating and wintering at sea off the coast in an area stretching from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to New England.
Razorbill is a colonial seabird That will only come to land in order to breed.

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