This delightful Hebridean reserve, with sand dunes, marshes and shallow lochs is a stronghold of the rare corncrake. Many species of wader breed here. Visitor centre and nature trail.
These low lying sandy islands have superb machair, great numbers of black guillemots and one of the most important colonies of grey seals in the world.
Uninhabited for over a 100 years this island reserve has large numbers of breeding seabirds including storm and Leach's petrels. Every autumn 8,000 grey seals come ashore to calve here.
This remote and spectacular group of islands with the highest (375m) cliffs in Britain, is home to almost a million seabirds, including a quarter of the world's population of gannets
This isolated rocky island has large numbers of breeding gannets and other seabirds. Each August the men of Ness come over from Lewis to 'harvest' the gugas - plump young gannets.
A reserve of striking contrasts from machair grassland on the coast to moorlands interspersed with quiet lochans. Best May - June for breeding wildfowl, waders and corncrakes. Nature trail.
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