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From the Brough of Birsay. The buildings in the foreground are the remains of the 10th-12th century Norse settlement. There was a Pictish settlement here in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Phalacrocorax aristotelis. (Phalacrocorax means 'bald raven' in latinised Greek. Shags and cormorants were believed to be related to ravens until at least the 16th century. Indeed 'cormorant' derives from 'corvus marinus', or sea raven.)
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