Life on the water

Other Seabirds

Kittiwakes, fulmars, shags, gulls, shearwaters and skuas around Rathlin Island and the Causeway Coast, photographed from Selkie on our wildlife boat tours.

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A big thank you to James Allen (our crew member and guide during the 2026 season) for providing us with most of these beautiful moments and pictures. Please feel free to check him out on Instagram: @orange_in_the_blue

A Manx shearwater resting on calm blue water.
A big brown seabird skimming low over the swell.
An eider duck on the water.
A fulmar gliding against a clear blue sky.
An eider duck with her duckling.
A gull standing on the rocks.
An eider duckling swimming towards the camera.
A fulmar floating on the water.
A line of seven geese swimming together.
The puffin colony, burrows all across the slope.
A family of eiders, ducklings and all.
An eider diving, tail and wings breaking the surface.
Two geese with their gosling paddling between them.
Three eider ducklings swimming together.
Seabirds nesting in cavities along the cliff face.
A female eider in close profile.
A male eider on calm water, black and white against the blue.
An eider duck swimming with its head raised.
A mother eider duck swimming with her duckling.
A great skua, sitting on the water with its wings raised showing white wing flashes.
Seabirds nesting in the cliff face, a chick tucked in with an adult.
Fulmars and gulls resting and feeding together on the water.
A dark seabird swimming and splashing on the water.
A gull perched among the sea thrift.
A male eider facing the camera, wings raised.
A female eider facing the camera.
A gull gliding against a grey sky.
A large gull gliding low over the sea, dark wings spread.
Two eider ducks swimming in a line.
A duckling on the water.
A fulmar flying low over the water, wings raised.
Puffins among the sea thrift.
A tight little group of eider chicks together on the water.
A duckling on the water, seen close up.
A small flock of seabirds taking off together.
A male eider close to the boat.
A dark waterbird standing in a tidal channel.
A gull gliding low over the sea.
An eider duck swimming on open water.
A duck and her duckling on the water.
Two geese swimming together.
Cormorants or shags lined up along the rock edge.
A gull and its chick on the ledge.
A young gull taking off, wings fully spread.
Three dark seabirds perched on rocks, one with its head tilted up.
Three dark seabirds perched on the rocks above the water.
Two diving birds swimming close together.
A fulmar flying against a grey sky.

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