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Seabirds are the living links between land, air and sea. They enjoy a freedom that even humans, with all our technological assistance, can barely imagine. Many species travel mind-boggling distances across the length and breadth of our planet before returning to land to breed in large, deafening and confusingly crowded colonies. Yet within this commotion each mated pair forms a bond of extreme closeness and tenderness that survives separation each winter and may persist for decades.The long and geologically varied coastline of the British Isles provides homes for internationally important numbers of breeding seabirds. Visiting their colonies is always unforgettable, whether they are cliff-faces packed with Guillemots, islands white-capped by clustered Gannets on their nests, flat beaches crowded with screaming Arctic Terns or seaside rooftops overlaid with a second townscape of nesting gulls. The changing fortunes of these seabird cities reveal to us the health of the vast, unseen but incredibly rich marine world that surrounds us.RSPB Seabirds showcases some of our most exciting and enigmatic bird species as vital and living components of one of our greatest natural assets: our coastline. The author presents detailed biographies of all the seabird species that breed in and around the British Isles, and also looks at the many species that breed elsewhere but which, regularly or occasionally, visit British waters. Every page of this sumptuous book features beautiful photographs of wild seabirds engaged in their daily work of hunting, travelling, protecting themselves and their territories, courting and raising a family.
Contents
Introduction 7Seaducks 13Eider 14Common Scoter 20Red-breasted Merganser 25Other seaducks 28Divers and grebes 35Red-throated Diver 36Black-throated Diver 40Great Crested Grebe 42Slavonian Grebe 46Other divers and grebes 48Tubenoses 53Fulmar 54Manx Shearwater 60European Storm-petrel 66Leach's Storm-petrel 71Other tubenoses 75Gannets, cormorants and relatives 83Gannet 84Cormorant 90Shag 96Other related species 102Phalaropes 105Grey Phalarope 106Skuas 109Arctic Skua 110Great Skua 116Other skuas 123Gulls 127Kittiwake 128Mediterranean Gull 134Black-headed Gull 136Common Gull 140Lesser Black-backed Gull 144Herring Gull 150Yellow-legged Gull 156Great Black-backed Gull 158Other gulls 164Terns 173Little Tern 174Sandwich Tern 180Roseate Tern 186Common Tern 190Arctic Tern 196Other terns 202Auks 207Guillemot 208Razorbill 214Black Guillemot 220Puffin 226Other auks 232Recommended reading 235Bibliography 235Acknowledgements 238Photographic credits 238Index 239
