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The Bass Rock, or simply the Bass [5] (/ b æ s /), (Scottish Gaelic: Creag nam Bathais or Scottish Gaelic: Am Bas) is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. Approximately 2 km (1 mi) offshore, and 5 km (3 mi) north-east of North Berwick , it is a steep-sided volcanic plug , 107 m (351 ft) at its highest ...
Bass Rock, in the Firth of Forth, first recorded in 1493. [45] In 2004, it contained more than 48,000 nests. [46] By 2014 this had increased to over 75,000, making it the largest colony in the world. [47] Northern gannets began a colony at Troup Head in Aberdeenshire in 1988, [48] and by 2014 it held an estimated 6,456 pairs. [49]
The biggest northern-gannet colony is on Scotland's Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth; in 2014, this colony contained some 75,000 pairs. [8] Sulasgeir off the coast of the Isle of Lewis , St Kilda , Grassholm in Pembrokeshire , Bempton Cliffs in the East Riding of Yorkshire , Sceilig Bheag , Ireland, Cape St Mary's , Newfoundland, and Bonaventure ...
The Centre also has exclusive landing rights for the Bass Rock, owned by Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, and home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets. [2] Landing Trips to the Bass Rock are a very special, sense busting, wildlife experience as the numbers of northern gannets have soared to 150,000 over the years.
The Bass Rock has more than 150,000 nesting northern gannets and is the largest single rock gannetry in the world. [17] When viewed from the mainland much of the rock looks white due to the sheer number of birds (and their droppings, which give off 152 tonnes of ammonia per year). [18]
In Rome, the heat of the city lures 20 million starlings that perform nature's greatest aerial display to outwit peregrines. In Hungary, sand martins grab mayflies from the air; and at Bass Rock, gannets create Britain's greatest natural spectacle as they dive in exquisite slow-motion. The story takes an emotional turn as storks and swallows ...
Joseph Bryan Nelson MBE FRSE (14 March 1932 – 29 June 2015) [1] was a British ornithologist, environmental activist and academic. He was a prominent authority on seabirds, publishing numerous books and articles on gannets, cormorants and other species, teaching zoology at the University of Aberdeen, and conducting pioneering ornithological research in Jordan, Christmas Island and the ...
Description: Bass Rock is a tiny island formed from a plug of volcanic rock in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. It contains the world’s largest colony of northern gannets, hosting 150,000 at peak.