Seabirds and Sea Ducks
by Wildlife Guide David Woodhouse

Mull and its surrounding islands are home to thousands of seabirds and ducks.  On the main island, you can see nesting Kittiwakes and Fulmars.  The Black Guillemot nests here, as does the Shag and a number of species of Gull, including Britain's largest Gull, the Great Black Backed Gull.  Just offshore on our smaller islands, you can see large numbers of Puffins, Common Guillemots and Razorbills.  There are also rarer birds, such as Storn Petrel and Arctic Skua.  On the mountainous island of Rhum there are huge numbers of Manx Shearwaters.  Many seabirds that do not nest here, are also seen on migration, in Spring and late Summer.  Birds such as Sooty Shearwater, Gannet, Corys and Great Shearwater are seen annually.  Nesting along Mull's seaweed covered shorelines, are Red Breasted Merganser and Eider Duck, and on inland lochs there are Red Throated Divers, Slavonian Grebes, Black Throated Diver and Great Northern Diver.