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Grey Seal

            Elton John has a song called Grey Seal on his Yellow Brick Road Album, though it was Bernie Taupin who wrote the lyrics "And tell me, grey seal, how does it feel, to be so wise, to see through eyes that only see what's real?"

Grey Seals have quite a restricted world distribution around Britain and Northern Europe including Iceland, with separate populations in the Baltic and across in New England and Newfoundland.  Molecular studies have shown that the European populations have not bred with the American populations for at least a million years, so might merit being classified as separate species.

I photographed this one off the Northumberland coast where large numbers breed on the Farne Islands.  It can be distinguished from the Common or Harbour Seal by its nostrils that are more widely separated at the base, and by the Roman nose profile without a forehead dip.  Its scientific name Halichoerus grypus translates as hook-nosed sea-pig.

Taken on: July 26, 2018

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Halichoerus

grypus

Grey

Seal

Northumberland

Tim Melling « less

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