The bodies of more than 100 dead birds and a 30ft whale were discovered on a Scots beach amid an avian flu crisis.
Gannets, guillemots and fulmars were among the species reported to have been found among the sands and seaweed at Ardwell Bay Beach in Wigtownshire, approximately nine miles south of Stranraer. A minke whale was also found on the beach.
Allan McLaren, 33, was walking his dogs when he came across the dead birds peppering the beach. He says he counted more than 50 of them at the beauty spot before giving up.
