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Birds
The Isle of Coll has a large variety of bird species, both common and rare to the Western isles and the UK. A definitive list, or even a train-spotters' list, would be fairly meaningless, so here I'll just show an example of what you may see during your visit. It's unlikely you'll see them all and you will find others, especially during migration times, but that's what it's all about. Coll's diverse range of habitats helps increase the mix and the low population density of the island assists the easily-disturbed to breed in peace.
The Auk photos are taken on Lunga, a small uninhabited island a short boat ride away from Coll.
Photographs of Coll Birds (86 images)
Arctic Skua
Arctic tern
Barnacle goose
Black Guillemot
Buzzard
Canada Goose
Common eider ♀
Common greenshank
Common Sandpiper
Corncrake
Cuckoo
Dunnock
Fulmar
Fulmar
Gannet
Goldfinch
Grasshopper warbler
great black-backed gull eggs
Great Northern Diver
Greylag Goose
Greylag goose eggs
Guillemot
Hen Harrier
Hen Harrier
Heron
Herring Gull
Herring Gull (youngster)
Hooded Crow
Hoopoe
Kittiwake
Lapwing
Lesser Redpoll
Lesser Redpoll (yellow headed variant)
Little Egret
Little Tern
Long-eared Owl
Manx Shearwater
Meadow Pipit
Meadow Pipit (juvenile)
Merlin ♀
Mute Swan
Mute Swans and cygnets
Osprey
Oystercatcher
Oystercatcher
Pied Wagtail
Pink-footed goose
Puffin
Puffin
Raven
Raven chicks
Razorbill
Razorbill
Razorbills
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Diver
Redshank
Reed Bunting
Reed Bunting
Ringed Plover
Ringer Plover
Robin
Rock dove
Rock Pipit
Sanderling
Sedge Warbler
Shag
Shag
Snipe
Snipe (chick)
Snow goose
Snow Goose
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Stonechat ♂
Stonechat fledgling
Tufted Duck
Twite
Waxwing
Wheatear
White-fronted goose
Whitethroat
Whooper swan
Whooper swans
Willow Warbler
Wren
© All photos, Tony Oliver