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Ronaldsay sheep

Exotic visitors often brought with them exotic animals. A surprising number of
islands around the British coast have their own breed of sheep – and the island
of North Ronaldsay, which is where Bill Oddie is, has North Ronaldsay sheep.
They’re not exactly wild, but they’re not tame either. Nobody really knows where
they came from. They were brought in long, long, long ago, possibly by the
Romans. They were allowed to go more or less feral, as they say, to roam the
island. The sheep got to enjoy seaweed instead of grass and these sheep do feed
exclusively on the seaweed down on the shore. And they get lots of lovely
minerals out of the seaweed, it’s very good for them.

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Sea horses usually occur in the tropics or along temperate coasts.  They prefer
a vegetated habitat over open water because they are poor swimmers.

They hunt in an ambush style.  Sea horses have an increasing success in
capturing their prey with increasing habitat complexity.  Adult sea horses tend
to feed more optimally then juveniles.

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Seagulls are very clever. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different feeding behaviours, such as dropping hard-shelled molluscs onto rocks so that they break open so they can eat them, and following ploughs in fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be plentiful. Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks. Gulls have a complex and highly developed repertoire for communication which includes a range of vocalisations and body movements. Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.

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The Japanese spider crabs leg span reaches 3.8metres (12 foot)! It feeds on shell fish and can live up to 100 years. They are mostly found off the southern coasts of the Japanize island Honshu. They can be found at depths of 600 metres (2000 feet ) or as shallow as 50 metres ( 160 feet ) . spider crabs are incredible animals with monstrous legs the are incredible!!!

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The white-tailed eagle is the largest UK bird of prey. It has brown body plumage with a conspicuously pale head and neck which can be almost white in older birds, and the tail feathers of adults are white. In flight it has massive long, broad wings with 'fingered' ends. Its head protrudes and it has a short, wedge-shaped tail. It went extinct in the UK during the early 20th century, due to illegal killing, and the present population has been reintroduced.

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The Dead Man’s Fingers is a soft coral that likes to live in groups. The groups form thick, fleshy-looking masses which take the shape of blunt fingers. The blunt-looking fingers have feathery tentacles giving the impression that the fingers are rotting in water and this is why this sea creature has its name ‘Dead Man’s Fingers’. It can be found all around the coasts of England in deeper waters where it attaches itself onto many hard surfaces such as rocks, shells, stones and crabs.

The Dead Man’s Fingers is made up of small organisms called ‘polyps’. Each polyp has a mouth surrounded by eight tiny tentacles. The fleshy-looking masses around the polyps can be grey, pink, white, orange or yellow and they protect the polyps and the sensitive tentacles. The tentacles have stinging cells called ‘nematocysts’ which are used when this sea creature wants to feed.

The larvae of the Dead Man’s Fingers hatch out of the eggs directly into the water where they first become part of zooplankton. After around two days they settle on a chosen site to develop into polyps and as time goes by groups are formed with the familiar shape of ‘Dead Man’s Fingers’.

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There are a lot of common seals especially in the waters of the north

Atlantic and the north Pacific Oceans. The UK has 5% of the world population.

At Sea they have a lot to fear from killer whales and white sharks.

Common Seals do not chew their food, they shallow whole or tear into chunks.

Females give birth to a single pup in June and July each year.

Males play no part in the bringing up of the pubs but spend much of this period

fighting amongst themselves in the water.

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When hunting, the Common Kestrel characteristically hovers about 10–20 m (c.30–70 ft) above the ground, searching for prey, either by flying into the wind or by soaring using ridge lift

Generally, invetebrates like camel spiders  and even eathworms, but mainly sizeable insects such as beatles, orthopterans and winged termites  are eaten with delight whenever the birds happen across them.

Common kestrels eat almost exclusively mouse-size mammals  typically voles, but also shrews and true mice supply up to three-quarters or more of the biomass most individuals inges on oceanic islands (where mammals are often scared),small birds-mainley passerine-may make up the bulk of its diet.

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The Atlantic Puffin is one of four types of puffin. The male is generally larger than the female but they are still the same colour. They are 26-29cm in lenth, they have an orange beak, a white tummy and black wings. when they dive for food they mainly get little fish, such as herring, sprats and sand eels. There are around 12 million atlantic puffins around the world with britain having a good  proportion of that around the UK coast.

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The Bottlenose Dolphin is found on the west coast of Scotland.

They look like fish but they are mammals and breathe air just like we do.

The Dolphins send messages to one another by squeaking and whistling and they can leap as high as six metres!

Their beaks are shaped like bottles and are about eight centimetres long.

They can swim in groups of twelve or more, called 'pods'.

They like to eat fish, squid and shrimps and swallow their food whole!

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Bottle Nose Dolphins live all around the coast.

They have a scientific name which the tursops.

These a the most common and well known

dolphins.

Bottle nose dolphins are a very clever animal and use clicking, whistling and lots of other sounds to talk to eachother.

Bottle nose dolphins are meat eaters, the female bottle nose dolphins are called cows and the mail are called bulls.

They use a blowhole on the top of there head to breath.

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Star fishes have five legs and if a leg fell of, then a new leg would grow. The arms are covered with pincer-like organs and suckers that allow the starfish to creep along the ocean floor. Light sensitive eye-spots on the the tips of the arms help the starfish find their food.

Star fishes eat mollusks,clams,snails and oysters.

Adult starfishes exsist in a range of colours from orange to  pink to brown. They can grow from 0.4 inches [1 centimeter] to more than 3 feet [91 centermeters] across!

It is difficult to tell if a star-fish is female or male just by looking at them!

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Apalone spinifera aspera differs from other subspeciess of Apalone spinifera in having two or more black lines running along the posterior border of the carapace. It also has scattered ocelli or ring-shaped spots on the carapace, which may be obscure in adult females. It has an oxymoronicc ring, similar to the featherquill porcupinee or rubbertooth shark.

A softshell turtle is a reptile and prob

erly one of the best turtle to live!!

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The Common Cuttlefish can reach a length of thirty centimetres and has about ten suckered tentacles with two of the tentacles being longer for seizing food.Its head is quite large and its body is broad and flattened which is ideal when this cuttlefish wants to rest on the seabed. It has large eyes with ‘W’ shaped black pupils. It also has an internal body shell known as the ‘cuttlebone’. Cuttlebones are often seen washed up on our shores. When its in danger the Cuttlefish will swim backwards and release an ink-type liquid which confuses predators. The Common Cuttlefish feeds on crabs, molluscs and small fish.

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Ella M. Blue Jellyfish(Cyanea Lamarckii)

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Ella M. Blue Jellyfish(Cyanea Lamarckii)

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The blue jellyfish lives all around the british ilsles.It can only grow up to 15 centimetres in diametre! It visits our coast from May-October.The blue jellyfish has a diet on mainly plankton.To a human the sting is less painful than a stinging nettle and doesn't last as long either!Sometimes it can be pure white.The blue jellyfish life span is only a year starting in the spring, the size of a finger nail and ending in late autumn its full size.But as the sea becomes rough the blue jellyfish dies.

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bottle nose dolphins live all around the coast,

their scientific name is the Tursiops.

The bottle nose dolphins are the most common

and well known dolphin.

The bottle nose dolphin is a very clever animal

and they use whistling, clicking and lots of other

ways to talk to each other.

These dolphins are carnivores (meat eaters).

A female bottle nose dolphins is called a cow

and a male bottle nose dolphin is called a bull.

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The Indian peacock is one of the most beautiful animals in the world. It`s found inhabiting India. The Indian peacock is the national bird of India because of its legendary beauty. The natural habitat of  peacocks is the dry forest, most of the time Indian peacocks stay on the ground. The female  peacock is called a peahen and the young are called peachicks.

Peacocks and peahens can live up to the age of 16. Peacocks have a special location where they display their trains to entice peahens. When one or more peahens approach, the peacock display their feathers spread out and form a beautiful fan. Then the male does a characteristic dance.

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Puffins have a peculiar and specific head and it is also black. They have black back and a white belly. Puffins mainly eat fish, they live on a open ocean.

Puffins use there wings to swim underwater. They flap their wings 400 times per minute,

Iceland is their breeding home of 60%. Female Puffins lay one egg at a time and both parents take turns to incubating the egg.

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The natterjack toad is an endangered animal on the British coastline .

Adults are 60–70 mm in length.

You can tell there not common toads by their yellow line down the middle of the back.

They have short legs, and this gives them a special hopping movement from your average comman other toad species.

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Seagulls love landfill sites full of rubbish!!!

Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for  life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting  the chicks!!

Many seagulls have learned to conserve energy by hovering over bridges in order to absorb raising heat from paved roadways.

A small claw halfway up their lower leg enables them to sit and roost on high ledges without being blown off.Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different  feeding behaviours, such as dropping hard-shelled molluscs onto rocks so  that they break open so they can eat them, and following ploughs in  fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be  plentiful.

Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.

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A gull's history of Britain, Coastal Animals, The Animal's Guide to Britain - BBC Two

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Cleaning Britain's air drastically changed the gull's view of Britain.

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There are about 15 types of Hermit Crab in the UK & they arewidespread around British coasts.

More closely related to lobsters & spiders than true

crabs. They are common in rockpools & live for about

6-8 years. They do not own their own shell, as they grow

they move into different larger empty shells. They love to

climb & eat almost anything!

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There are thousands of species of animals whose habitat is the coast. One of my favourite is the Grey Seal. What other types of animal live by the sea?