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St Kilda is a remote archipelago, west of the Outer Hebrides.Several types of sheep have been associated with St Kilda. In addition to the Boreray, these include the Soay sheep, a feral type from Soay (one of the other islands in the St Kilda archipelago), and the Hebridean sheep, which was formerly called the "St Kilda sheep", although the sheep it was derived from were probably not in fact ...
A North Ronaldsay sheep with twin lambs on the beach, with seals in the background. The sheep are descended from the Northern European short-tailed sheep.Their arrival onto North Ronaldsay is not known precisely but it may have been as early as the Iron Age, [4] or possibly even earlier, [5] [6] which would make them potentially the earliest ovines to arrive in Britain.
Soay sheep of varied colours. The Hirta population is unmanaged and has been the subject of scientific study since the 1950s. The population makes an ideal model subject for scientists researching evolution, population dynamics and demography because the population is unmanaged, is closed (no emigration or immigration) and has no significant competitors or predators.
The North Ronaldsay Sheep is a most unusual breed, subsisting largely on a diet of seaweed. [3] The Boreray was in 2012 the only sheep breed listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as 'critical', its highest level of concern at that time; [4] in 2022 it was listed as 'at risk', the lower of the two levels of concern of the Trust. [5]
Boreray's cliffs are home for various seabirds. In 1959, 45,000 pairs of gannets were counted on the island and the two stacks. There are also over 130 different varieties of flowering plant on the island. [4] The island is also the home to an extremely rare breed of sheep, the Boreray, sometimes also called the Boreray Blackface or Hebridean ...
The St Kildans kept up to 2,000 of a different type of sheep on the islands of Hirta and Boreray. These were a Hebridean variety of the Scottish Dunface, a primitive sheep probably similar to those kept throughout Britain during the Iron Age. During the evacuation, all the islanders' sheep were removed from Hirta, but those on Boreray were left ...
Four breeds of sheep, in the illustrated encyclopedia Meyers Konversationslexikon. This is a list of breeds of domestic sheep. Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are partially derived from mouflon (Ovis gmelini) stock, and have diverged sufficiently to be considered a different species. Some sheep breeds have a hair coat and are known as haired sheep.
North Ronaldsay (/ ˈ r ɒ n ə l t s iː /, also / ˈ r ɒ n ə l d z iː /, Scots: North Ronalshee) is the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. With an area of 690 hectares (2.7 sq mi), it is the fourteenth-largest. [8]