Land of sea urchin

In the breeding season, hundreds of thousands of sea urchins often return to Bass Rock Island, making it one of the largest concentration places in the world.

Bass Rock is a small island located on the east coast of Scotland.In the breeding season, it is often home to about 150,000 seabirds.At its peak, it was home to 500,000 animals, including sea urchins, seagulls, gulls, uria birds, penguins, seagulls fumma, cormorants, terns .

The island is an important habitat for seabirds in general and especially sea urchins.

According to researchers, up to thousands of sea urchins will gather here during the breeding season, making it one of the largest concentration of sea urchins in the world.

The first flock of sea buzzer this year flew here, started nesting and breeding.With the number of birds flying to the nest up to hundreds of thousands of children, the island seems to turn white.

The sea is the largest sea bird in the UK, with wingspan of more than 1.8 meters and can live for more than 30 years.They are species with good vision, can detect fish under the water.

A bird began to mature at the age of 5. In the first year since birth, sea urchins have completely black fur.The coat is gradually white in the later years of development.

This bird is characterized by long necks and long pointed beaks, making them easy to catch fish.The method of catching fish of sea urchins is to fly overhead, detect prey, circulate and plunge into the water at high speed.

A sea urchin is using a beak to cling tightly to seaweed before returning to the nest.

Bass Rock was formed 320 million years ago and is a remnant of one of the many volcanoes of this region.Bass Rock became an uninhabited island since 1988, when the last lighthouse keeper died.