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  • Phoenician Juniper Juniperus phoenicia (Cupressaceae) HEIGHT to 8m. Small evergreen tree, or a spreading shrub. LEAVES Scaly twigs bear 2 types of leaves. Young leaves are up to 1.5cm long and 1mm wide, sharply pointed, showing pale bands on both surfaces; in bunches of 3 spreading at right-angles. Mature leaves are only 1mm long, resembling tiny green scales clasping the twig. REPRODUCTIVE PARTS Male cones are inconspicuous and borne at ends of shoots, female cones are up to 1.4cm long, rounded and ripening from black through yellowish-green to a deep red in second year. STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION Native of Mediterranean coasts and Atlantic shores of Portugal. Found in old collections in our region.
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  • Striped Dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba Length to 2.5m Streamlined shape is similar to that of other dolphin species. Dorsal surface is dark, underside is bluish-pink. Flanks are pale grey with one short black stripe running back from ear, and a longer one along the side of the body. Widespread in both Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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  • Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea visit to feed from the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands which is quite a journey.
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  • Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea visit to feed from the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands which is quite a journey.
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  • Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris diomedea visit to feed from the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands which is quite a journey.
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  • Phoenician Juniper Juniperus phoenicia (Cupressaceae) HEIGHT to 8m. Small evergreen tree, or a spreading shrub. LEAVES Scaly twigs bear 2 types of leaves. Young leaves are up to 1.5cm long and 1mm wide, sharply pointed, showing pale bands on both surfaces; in bunches of 3 spreading at right-angles. Mature leaves are only 1mm long, resembling tiny green scales clasping the twig. REPRODUCTIVE PARTS Male cones are inconspicuous and borne at ends of shoots, female cones are up to 1.4cm long, rounded and ripening from black through yellowish-green to a deep red in second year. STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION Native of Mediterranean coasts and Atlantic shores of Portugal.
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  • Phoenician Juniper Juniperus phoenicia (Cupressaceae) HEIGHT to 8m. Small evergreen tree, or a spreading shrub. LEAVES Scaly twigs bear 2 types of leaves. Young leaves are up to 1.5cm long and 1mm wide, sharply pointed, showing pale bands on both surfaces; in bunches of 3 spreading at right-angles. Mature leaves are only 1mm long, resembling tiny green scales clasping the twig. REPRODUCTIVE PARTS Male cones are inconspicuous and borne at ends of shoots, female cones are up to 1.4cm long, rounded and ripening from black through yellowish-green to a deep red in second year. STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION Native of Mediterranean coasts and Atlantic shores of Portugal.
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  • Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea visit to feed from the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands which is quite a journey.
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  • Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea visit to feed from the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands which is quite a journey.
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  • Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea visit to feed from the Mediterranean and Atlantic islands which is quite a journey.
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  • Idylic sandy beach on the island of Bermuda, a British territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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  • View over Great Sound, Bermuda Island, a British island territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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  • Sunset over Bermuda Island, a British island territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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  • View of Hog Bay looking towards Somerset Village, Bermuda Island, a British island territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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  • Southern Elephant Seal - Mirounga leonina  - pup. Length 2-3m, weight 400-850kg Massive seal. Male is up to four times larger than female, with distinctive proboscis. Breeds on Sub-Antarctic islands, notably South Georgia.
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  • Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina Length 2-3m, weight 400-850kg Massive seal. Male is up to four times larger than female, with distinctive proboscis. Breeds on Sub-Antarctic islands, notably South Georgia.
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  • Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina Length 2-3m, weight 400-850kg Massive seal. Male is up to four times larger than female, with distinctive proboscis. Breeds on Sub-Antarctic islands, notably South Georgia.
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  • Southern Skua - Stercorarius antarcticus
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  • Southern Skua - Stercorarius antarcticus
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  • Gentoo Penguin - Pygoscelis papua
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  • Gentoo Penguin - Pygoscelis papua
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  • King Cormorant - Phalacrocorax atriceps albiventer
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  • King Cormorant - Phalacrocorax atriceps albiventer
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  • Rock Shag - Phalacrocorax magellanicus
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  • Ruddy-headed Goose - Chloephaga rubidiceps
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  • Southern Elephant Seal - Mirounga leonina
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  • Southern Elephant Seal - Mirounga leonina - Juvenile males rearing and fighting. Falkland Islands
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  • Black-browed Albatross - Thalassarche melanophris
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Sooty Shearwater - Ardenna grisea
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Southern Elephant Seal - Mirounga leonina - fighting
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  • Black-browed Albatross - Thalassarche melanophris - sat on nest, Saunders Island, Falkland Islands
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  • Southern Elephant Seal - Mirounga leonina
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  • Southern Elephant Seal - Mirounga leonina - fighting
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  • Southern Elephant Seal - Mirounga leonina - fighting
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  • King Cormorant - Phalacrocorax atriceps albiventer
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  • Black-browed Albatross - Thalassarche melanophrys
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  • Black-browed Albatross - Thalassarche melanophrys - 3 week old chick on nest
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  • Macaronesian Shearwater - Puffinus baroli
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  • Bermuda Petrel - Pterodroma cahow - artificial nest burrow and chamber being examined by Jeremy Madeiros, warden of Nonsuch Island, with wooden 'baffle' to exclude White-tailed Tropicbirds from burrows
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  • Bermuda Petrel - Pterodroma cahow
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  • Bermuda Petrel - Pterodroma cahow
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  • Fea's Petrel - Pterodroma feae
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  • Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina Length 2-3m, weight 400-850kg Massive seal. Male is up to four times larger than female, with distinctive proboscis. Breeds on Sub-Antarctic islands, notably South Georgia.
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  • Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina Length 2-3m, weight 400-850kg Massive seal. Male is up to four times larger than female, with distinctive proboscis. Breeds on Sub-Antarctic islands, notably South Georgia.
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  • Brown Booby - Sula leucogaster
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  • Black-browed Albatross - Thalassarche melanophris
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  • Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus L 46cm. Aerobatic, graceful seabird with deep wingbeats and narrow, pointed wings. Food parasite of Arctic Tern and Kittiwake. Adult has wedge-shaped tail and pointed streamers. Sexes are similar but adults occur in two morphs. Adult pale phase has white neck, breast and belly, dark cap and otherwise grey-brown plumage. Note faint yellowish flush on cheeks. Adult dark phase is uniformly dark grey-brown. Juvenile is dark rufous brown. Voice Utters nasal calls near nest. Status Local summer visitor to Scottish coasts; coastal passage migrant elsewhere.
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Cory's Shearwater - Calonectris diomedea
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  • Great Shearwater - Ardenna gravis
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  • Cory's Shearwater - Calonectris diomedea
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  • Cory's Shearwater - Calonectris diomedea
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  • Arctic Skua - Stercorarius parasiticus
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