Dozens of local people alerted the Wild Isles documentary film crew when they saw killer whales.
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will investigate how British and Irish woodland, grassland, freshwater and ocean habitats support local wildlife.Shetland-based ecologist and wildlife photographer Richard Shucksmith, 49, helped the film crew get to know the local landscape.Orcas visit the islands in spring to hunt for seals. "You can't predict when [the orcas] will turn up. But because we have a good network of people, when they're sighted, it gets put out to everyone.
He said: "A lot of the killer whales we see around Shetland, we know the pods, we've known them for years, we know what members there are."So a lot of good information gets collected from a citizen science point of view too."He said some shouts attract up to 150 locals racing to see the impressive killer whales, occasionally blocking roads on the islands.
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