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live walrus visits Orkney, unusual visitor

Added on 04 March 2013

Mark Warren, an assistant warden at the North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory. reported a live walrus on the island of North Ronaldsay in Orkney.  These are not normally present in Orkney as the island is well beyond the southern range of the creatures.

 photo of the walrus, copyright Ingrid Tullock

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