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                      | Image details: | 
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                      | Image Description: | 
                      A Little Auk out at sea | 
                     
                     
                      | Image notes:  | 
                      Rotchies vist the seas around Shetland but never come ashore unless driven by gales. Photographed near Hascosay, nr. Mid Yell. | 
                     
                     
                      | Species in Image:  | 
                      Little Auk | 
                     
                     
                      | Date: | 
                      1970, 6th.Jan. | 
                     
                     
                      | Area:  | 
                      Yell | 
                     
                     
                      | Old Haa Image Reference Number: | 
                      btc01194 | 
                     
                   
 
 
| General details: | 
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| Common Name | 
Little Auk | 
 
 
| Latin Name | 
Alle alle | 
 
 
| Shetland Name | 
Rotchie | 
 
 
| Latin Group Name | 
Charadriiformes | 
 
 
| Latin Family Name | 
Alcidae | 
 
 
| Common Family Name | 
Auks | 
 
 
| Description | 
Fairly common passage migrant and winter visitor.  They sometimes get weather-beaten in prolonged onshore gales and are found inland.
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