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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
Great Northern Diver |
| Image notes: |
This Immer G�s was photographed on Colgrave Sound. |
| Species in Image: |
Great Northen Diver |
| Date: |
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| Area: |
Yell |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc02089 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Great Northen Diver |
| Latin Name |
Gavia immer |
| Shetland Name |
Immer G�s |
| Latin Group Name |
Gaviiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Gaviidae |
| Common Family Name |
Divers |
| Description |
A winter visitor to the Shetland coast, where they seem to gather in small flocks in spring before returning to their breeding areas in Iceland, Greenland, Baffin Island and a few to mainland Canada. |
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