Harbour seals are taken from the surface and dragged down until they stop struggling.

It is a bird sanctuary, and home to a colony of harbour seals.

In May and June, the common or harbour seals pup.

It is possible that they now outnumber harbour seals off the Norfolk coast.

Occasionally, especially after severe winter storms, harbour seals may be encountered on the beaches.

A variety of wildlife may be seen in the pass, including harbour seals, sea lions, and bald eagles.

A harbour seal is capable of maximum dive depths approaching 300 metres.

There is also a pair of harbour seals, Loki and Snorkel.

Steve and Edie are two harbour seals that used to be in show business before living with Willa.

That's before you even get to the wildlife of the region - harbour seals, sea otters, whales, eagles and bears, to name but a few.

Grey seals are more common on the island than harbour seals, but both are now well established.

The common or harbour seal and the grey seal are both resident in the Irish Sea.

His Ph.D., awarded in 1972, was based on the reproductive ecology of harbour seals.

This park is a favourite haul out for harbour seals, Northern & California sea lions.

Other pinnipeds shown include hooded seals and harbour seals.

In 1988 and 2002 thousands of harbour seals were killed in Europe by phocine distemper virus.

Seabirds nest on the cliffs and along the coast we will see Harbour Seals, the only population found in Spitsbergen.

Of the 24 mammal species, 14 of these are marine mammals that include grey seals and harbour seals.

The harbour seals have their young between June and August, and the pups, which can swim almost immediately, may be seen on the mud flats.

Rare seabirds, such as arctic terns and skuas, along with a large population of harbour seals find their nesting grounds here.

Orca whales, harbour seals and seabirds can all be seen at Georgina Point.

Colonies of harbour seals and grey seals also inhabit the park's 25 kilometres of sand dunes.

Marine mammals such as harbour seals and Steller's sea lions use the island as a haul-out.

The river hosts a population of landlocked freshwater harbour seals and salmon, and its mouth is a sanctuary for beluga whales.

Yet, signs of a crisis are hard to miss: Nearly half of Europe's harbour seals were destroyed by viral infections in the 1980's.

But the harbor seal is more than just a pretty face.

The harbor seal show opened in 1990, and is still showing daily.

As of late 2009, about 200 harbor seals were using the beach regularly.

In fall and winter, harbor seals can often be seen just offshore.

Harbor seals can occasionally be seen on a small beach at the base.

The harbor seals can be viewed through an underwater window.

In front of the Aquarium is a harbor seal exhibit.

Long Islanders who want to see harbor seals will have to wait until next winter.

Harbor seals are arriving earlier and staying longer each winter.

The harbor seals, often from the Maine coast, are the most common locally.

As he bobbed on the surface, a harbor seal watched him.

Harbor seals head north when the water gets warm.

The shores of the bay are an important breeding ground for harbor seals.

Harbor Seals, fish, and shellfish were also killed or affected.

A harbor seal hospital, built in 1999, will remain.

Another hunter, a harbor seal, remained in our vicinity for more than half an hour.

Beginning in 2001, harbor seals have been seen wintering around the islands.

Many birds and harbor seal live in this area.

Harbor seals are common near the tip of the point most of the year.

Looking for ships coming in and the harbor seals.

Every few hundred yards we would see the round, bobbing head of a harbor seal.

A family of harbor seals in a small pool includes a new baby seal born June 1.

Harbor seals reside in a setting like that of the rocky coast.

He watched a harbor seal who was floating on his back dive down as the boat passed.

About 1,000 harbor seals depend upon the island for a pupping and rest area.

Common seals have also been spotted in the river around the island.

Each county council was required to adopt a common seal.

They are legally provided their own police force and allowed to use a common seal.

A round black head appeared and disappeared - a common seal.

The charter gave the company perpetual succession and a common seal.

The main source of subsistence agriculture in the past, reflecting the common seal.

Eider duck and common seal also occur here in large numbers.

The area has a large common seal population, and there are always lots of them lying on the rocks or swimming in the sea.

The theme of my last film was based around that common seal pup washed up on the beach outside the house.

Common Seals are known to enter estuaries in pursuit of their prey.

Then, even more astonishingly, this summer a young common seal pup was washed up on the beach.

These areas boast wildlife such as brown bear, sika deer, and common seal.

The common seals of nineteen vestries were affixed to the document.

All except one are common seals and, as the autumn moult approaches, they show the usual variation of colours.

How you can tell the difference between grey seals and common seals by looking at their snouts.

Two types live in these waters, the Atlantic grey seal and the common seal.

A primitive form of the crest first appeared in 1539 on the reverse of a new common seal.

The Lough is also the most important site in Ireland for breeding common seals.

In 1836 the new borough corporation adopted a common seal, incorporating an unofficial coat of arms.

Grey and common seals commonly eat Atlantic salmon.

The ringed seal is the smallest and most common seal in the Arctic.

Grey and Common Seals are also regular visitors to Yell's coast.

The shield is based on the borough's ancient common seal, which is believed to date from the first half of the 16th century.

Bull Greys have larger noses and a less curved profile than common seal bulls.

In 1988 there was a seal epidemic when thousands of common seals died from phocine distemper virus.