Black Guillemots, Puffins and Auks Print

Reproduced from the original illustrations by Tracy Hall for The Orkney Book of Birds. This plate features Black Guillemots on Papa Sound, Stronsay, Puffins on the Castle O'Burrian, Westray, Little Auks in the Bay of Legrow, Holm and, lest we forget, the Great Auk, on Fowl Craig, Papa Westray - the last of his kind in Orkney, stoned to death in April 1813 a year after his mate, and swiftly followed by worldwide extinction...