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Acknowledgement
Thanks in equal measure to Rafael Pesantes on the Galapagos Islands, Deryk Shaw on Fair Isle, and Gary Bell on Shetland. Jenny Loxton on Sea Lion Island and Allan White on Pebble Island in the Falkland Islands and Ahmed Saeid Suliman on Socotra Island. The staff of North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory on North Ronaldsay Island in the Orkney Islands. Without these knowledgeable experts sharing their wealth of expertise of their home islands with me, there would be no naturesbig4.com website.
The photographs were taken by the author using Canon Camera’s and lenses. Galapagos was visited in 2007, Socotra in 2008, Falkland Islands in 2009 and Fair Isle in 2012.
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