Significant nesting bird species include sandhill cranes and yellow-billed loons.

Sandhill cranes also nest on the tundra, with common, arctic and yellow-billed loons.

To our delight these turned out to be white-billed divers, another species which breeds farther east along the Siberian coast.

In 2009, this species was removed, along with White-billed Diver and Cattle Egret.

Its closest relative is the other large black-headed species, the Yellow-billed Loon or White-billed Diver, Gavia adamsii.

The Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii), also known as the White-billed Diver, is the largest member of the loon or diver family.

Elsewhere, other rarities reported in 2006 include a White-billed Diver at Gairloch, a Black-browed Albatross in the Western Isles, a Laughing Gull in Shetland and a Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Lossiemouth.

Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia Adamsii)