A bird sanctuary in “Treasure Island” Stevenson’s Novel

Located on the fjord or the Firth of Forth, front of the picturesque town of North Berwick, Scotland, a group of volcanic islets which serves hundreds of thousands of birds build their nests and form true colonies among the rocks.

The sight of birds fluttering like a swarm of bees true is the same that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson his novel “Treasure Island.” In this seabird sanctuary,  his grandfather, who was  engineer, built a lighthouse. There too, the Stevenson family rented a house on the coast where they spent the summers and the future writer, a sickly child, playing with other children, he saw and imagined the ships go by stories of pirates and shipwrecks.

The town of North Berwick, after the railroad arrived in 1850, became one of the most popular summer resort north of the island, earning him the name ‘Biarritz of the North’.

Gulls, puffins, cormorants, gannets, wagtails, eiders, fulmars, auks thrushes and other more or less exotic names are true colonies are a spectacular attraction, but the Center for Birds of Scotland (Scottish Seabird Centre) built in 2000, pioneer in non-intrusive observation of birds, Which has earned him numerous awards both tourist and the environmental sector.

During the summer months to the end of September is also possible to surround the islands by boat and see how tens of thousands of birds basking in the rock walls or fluttering like a swarm.

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