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Country diary 1974: A porcine mystery on the Bass Rock

The Observer 16 Dec 2024
BASS ROCK. A visit to the Bass Rock is always a delightful experience ... All around are the innumerable gannets which are the solan geese of yesteryear ... Keeping track of the gannets of the Bass Rock.
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This underrated seaside town has ‘so much to offer’ and one of the UK’s loveliest ...

Metro UK 27 Oct 2024
Visitors can take a boat over to Bass Rock to catch a glimpse of the huge gannet colony ... Approximately 2km offshore from North Berwick, Bass Rock is home to a large colony of gannets, that Sir David ...
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This little-known seaside town has one of the UK’s loveliest high streets

Metro UK 17 Aug 2024
Visitors can take a boat over to Bass Rock to catch a glimpse of the huge gannet colony ... Approximately 2km offshore from North Berwick, Bass Rock is home to a large colony of gannets, that Sir David ...
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Broken Bulker Continues to Leak Oil onto South African Coast

The Maritime Executive 30 Jul 2024
It is covering about two-thirds of a mile south of the wreck ... So far there have been no reports of the wildlife being impacted but it is reported that gannets and penguins forage in the region. The spill is also near the Elephant Rock Marine Reserve.
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‘Scotland in miniature’: why the Isle of Arran is perfect for a family holiday

The Observer 28 Jul 2024
There’s a gannet colony on Ailsa Craig, he tells us, as we catch a glimpse of the mighty rock in the distance, and the uninhabited island’s ultra-dense granite is still quarried (outside of seabird ...
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The East Neuk village with a stunning new-look boutique hotel

The Times/The Sunday Times 19 Jul 2024
... boats, rocking on the Firth of Forth ... The Isle of May protrudes on the horizon like a blue whale surfacing for air, while the white sheen from the gannets perched on Bass Rock shimmers in the distance.
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This hunk of rock off Maine’s coast is the last disputed territory with Canada

Bangor Daily News 26 Jun 2024
Aside from a lighthouse and a seasonally staffed monitoring station, it’s uninhabited — except for thousands and thousands of seabirds, including razorbill auks, Arctic terns, northern gannets and the legendarily adorable Atlantic puffin.
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The man I met while out running thought I was wrong not to track my miles

The Irish Times 22 Jun 2024
I wasn’t quite solitary; there was a tent tucked in on the turf beside the gannets’ cliff, and after a while the occupant came out, went behind a rock, pottered about and began to pack up his camp.
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From Kathleen Jamie to Richard Overy: new books reviewed in short

New Statesman 19 Jun 2024
Why War? by Richard Overy ... The conclusion of his fact-rich and wide-ranging book is that war is normal ... On the Firth of Forth, observing the Bass Rock, she spots “a pennant of twenty-odd gannets”, survivors of a recent avian influenza epidemic.
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Bird Flu is Now a Major Threat to Marine Life

The Maritime Executive 23 May 2024
A deadly strain of avian influenza is spreading across the global ocean ... Where is it? ... How is it affecting ocean wildlife? ... How bad could it get? ... In the UK, there has been a 70% reduction of northern gannets at their key breeding ground of Bass Rock.
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The easy new way to explore this secret corner of the UK

The Times/The Sunday Times 17 May 2024
Offshore lours Bass Rock, a fist of white stone; this is where David Attenborough dropped in on 150,000 gannets, the world’s largest colony, in his Wild Isles series ... It’s cycling for gannets.Advertisement.
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Feeding frenzies and resurgent glowworms among UK wildlife highlights in 2023

The Observer 29 Dec 2023
Although there were signs of some birds showing immunity to avian flu – with gannets on Bass Rock, Scotland, which have black instead of pale blue irises, more likely to have survived the virus – ...
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Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world: Antarctica could be next

Phys Dot Org 25 Dec 2023
Antarctica is often imagined as the last untouched wilderness ... Avian influenza has devastated seabird populations around the world, including a 70% reduction of northern gannets on Bass Rock in the United Kingdom ... Bird flu moving further south ... ....
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When people move out, wildlife moves in: 10 abandoned places reclaimed by nature

The Press Enterprise 21 Nov 2023
The island of Boreray, and surrounding sea stacks, host the world’s largest colony of gannets, and all Soay sheep in the world are descended from those found on Soay island. Stack Rock Fort, Wales.
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Bird flu takes toll on Bass Rock gannet colony

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Oct 2023
A count carried out by researchers in June showed that the gannet population on Bass Rock, an island in the Firth of Forth, has fallen from 75,000 sites to about 55,000, down 25-30 per cent since the ...

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