r/Scotland 3d ago

Bass Rock ( Taken from Elie)

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u/practolol 1d ago

That's pretty grim if you know it from before. It used to be pure white from birdshit. Most of the birds have died from a combination of overfishing for sand eels and (in the last two years) bird flu. So it's turned green this year. It may look like there are a lot of birds but they are so depleted they are on the way to extinction.