On our seas

The average depth of the sea is just over two miles deep. What do we know about what happens at the surface?

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In our seas

The sea covers over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Let’s have a look in the seas which surround our island?

Gulls.

Herring Gull

  • large, noisy light grey backs

  • white under parts, and black wing tips with white patches.

  • PINK LEGS

  • heavy, slightly hooked bills marked with a red spot

Black headed gull

  • small

  • pale grey

  • dark brown head in summer

  • DARK REDDISH BROWN LEGS

Lesser black-back gull

  • dark grey to black back and wings,

  • yellow bill

  • YELLOW LEGS

Great black-back gulls

  • very large

  • thick-set black-backed

  • powerful beak

  • PINK LEGS

Kittiwake

  • medium-sized

  • small yellow bill and a dark eye

  • grey back with white underneath

  • SHORT BLACK LEGS

  • In flight the black wing-tips show no white, unlike other gulls

Common Gull

  • GREENISH LEGS

  • They nest in trees.

  • Can live until they are 24.

  • Yellow bill

What lives here?

Do! Learn! Be!

The sea is all around us!
How does it work and what’s going on in it?

Sea Stories
Places to go
Sea Facts
Art Stuff
Sea Shanties

The bowline (pronunciation “boh-lin”) is a knot which makes a fixed, secure loop at the end of the line.

KNOTS

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our school pack!

Ringnet Fishing
Quiz Page
Boats
Fish
The Boat Bus Title Page.
Types of Fishing

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#1. What bird might you find wading at the waters edge?

Select all that apply:

#2. What shellfish would you find living on a rocky shore?

Select all that apply:

#3. What do fishermen use to catch lobsters

#4. A Herring Gull has what colour legs?

#5. What animal makes the loudest sound on the planet?

#6. In the story 'Moby Dick', what colour was the whale?

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