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January 2012
There has been an influx of Arctic gulls seen in the Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands and further south off the Scottish mainland and islands and off Ireland and on English coasts as far south as the English Channel. 
 

Ross's Gull @ Ardglass Harbour Photograph by Craig Nash Peregrine's Bird Blog	Bonaparte's Gull @ Ballygalley Photograph by Kenny & Pauline Majury Northern Ireland Birds & Wildlife

       
9 January 2012
A juvenile 26.4 cm long Loggerhead Turtle, Caretta caretta, was discovered alive on the rocks at along Widemouth Bay on the north coast of Cornwall. This young ocean traveller was likely to have been washed in by the recent gales. Reports are rare in all months of the year, but especially so in the first months of the year when the sea is too cold for their survival around the British Isles.  

Marine Conservation Society Report

UK Turtle Code
BMLSS Turtlesull Reports
  
3 January 2012
A young Kemp's Ridley Turtle, Lepidochelys kempii, was discovered on the shore at Tresilian Bay, near Llantwit Major, on the south Wales coast. This was the second of these young turtles discovered dead after the gales since Christmas 2011. These endangered turtles breed on the coasts of Mexico and are usually found in the Gulf of Mexico and were thought to have blown across the Atlantic Ocean. The turtles are likely to have perished in the cold seas. 
Earlier Report

BBC News Report

BMLSS Turtles
 
 

British Marine Life News 2011
 
 

 

Cornish Marine Life Records 2009
BMLSS Oil Disasters page

 

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