Almost a fifth of all the seabirds in Scotland breed on National Trust for Scotland properties.

Whether among the wheeling clamour of nearly a million birds at the remote islands of St Kilda or on more accessible, but no less crowded cliffs of St Abbs Head, seabirds throng our coastal sites. Even some of our lesser known properties, such as Murray’s Isles off Gatehouse of Fleet, contain regionally important colonies of gulls and cormorants.

Click on the map of Scotland to explore some of our seabird colonies.