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Uninhabited treeless islands of 500 hectares, between the Scottish mainland and Outer Hebrides. Up to 265,000 breeding seabirds.
A striking place to visit in early summer, the privately owned Shiant Isles have 240,000 breeding Atlantic Puffin, 18,000 Common Guillemot, 11,000 Razorbill, 4,000 Northern Fulmar, 2,000 тропрст галеб and 1,500 морски корморан, plus белоопашест орел and passing waders. The Minch channel is an important route for minke, fin and killer whales and basking sharks.
Rats having recently been eradicated, it is hoped that shearwaters and petrels will return to breed.
Access by boat from Gairloch, between Torridon and Ullapool, and by arrangement with owner Tom Nicholson (tom@shiantisles.net), see link below.
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