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Copinsay Nature Reserve RSPB

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Copinsay Nature Reserve RSPB
Copinsay Nature Reserve RSPB
Copinsay
Orkney Islands
Scotland
(Nearest postcode is)
KW17 2QQ

Tel: 01224 624 824

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About Copinsay Nature Reserve RSPB

The reserve comprises the uninhabited main island of Copinsay, three smaller islets of Corn Holm, Ward Holm, Black Holm and the Horse of Copinsay.

Copinsay is mainly covered in grass, with 10 ha of arable, hay and pasture managed as cover for corncrake. There are fine colonies of oysterplant and sea aster on the islands. More than 1,000 pairs of fulmars nest on Copinsay, which has nearly a mile of vertical cliffs up to 76 metres high.

There is a vast seabird colony on the cliffs, with around 20,000 guillemots, 700 razorbills, 600 puffins and about 4,500 pairs of kittiwakes. Black guillemots and shags also nest here and there are great black-backed gull colonies. Several hundred Arctic terns may nest on the islands and there are eiders, twites, wheatears and ravens on Copinsay in the breeding season.

In autumn, a colony of around 2,000 grey seals comes ashore to pup. Copinsay was bought as a memorial to the naturalist James Fisher.



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