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Title: Minke Whale Feeding, UK
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A minke whale (common minke whale: Balaenoptera acutorostrata) lunges into a bait ball of sand eels (lesser sandeel: lesser sand eel: Ammodytes tobianus) scatterring them above the surface. Island of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom. Sea of Hebrides, North East Atlantic Ocean.
- British Isles
- Cairns of Coll
- Cetaceans: Cetacea
- Coll
- common minke whale: Balaenoptera acutorostrata
- Filter Feeding Whales: Great Whales: Baleen Whales: Mysteceti
- Hebrides
- Hebrides Sea
- Isle of Coll
- Mammalia
- Marine Life
- Marine Mammals
- North East Atlantic Ocean
- Rorquals: Balaenopteridae
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
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