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Common seal
The smaller of our two UK seal species, common seals are also known as harbour seals. Despite being called "Common", they are actually less common than grey seals!
Grey seal
Have you ever seen the curious face of a grey seal bobbing in the waves when visiting the beach? Grey seals can be seen lying on beaches waiting for their food to go down. Sometimes they are…
Grey seal
Scilly's seal pupping season
August-November is grey seal pupping season, and on Scilly this means that we’re more likely to see young ‘white coats’ (pups) on our beaches. Whilst the majority of seal pups are born in remote…
My regeneration
30 years ago, if Jeremy had fallen in the river then he’d have been more worried about being poisoned than drowned! A 1980s trawl survey found just one fish in the Billingham reach of the Tees,…
Marine
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
How to hunt for flowers on Scilly
How to spot seabirds on Scilly
Scilly's species
Flagship Species
Eastern Isles
The Eastern Isles are made up of a handful small islands and numerous adjacent islets and rocks form the Eastern Isles, immediately to the south-east of St Martin’s. This is a haven for seabirds…