Place: St. Ninian’s Isle, Shetland Mainland
Date: 9 June 2018.
Place: Uyeasound, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 17 June 2018.
Place: Sands of Sound, Lerwick, Shetland Mainland
Date: 17 June 2018.
[Mergus serrator, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Red-breasted merganser]
The sound of the red-breasted merganser (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)
Distribution and sightings of the red-breasted merganser across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
















