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Sgùrr na Ciste Duibhe (left) with Sgùrr nan Spainteach in front

  • ...that the fauna of Scotland includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only one endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of Wild Cats remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?