Video shows orca learning to hunt birds off Orkney (www.bbc.co.uk)

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An amateur wildlife photographer says capturing a pod of orcas teaching a youngster how to hunt was "amazing".

Graham Campbell captured video and pictures of the pod as they hunt, breach (when the whale launches their body out of the water) and spy hop (when they pop their heads up out of the water to inspect their surroundings) throughout the afternoon.

His footage, captured off Hoxa Head in South Ronaldsay, Orkney, caught the pod teach a calf how to catch seabirds.

Mr Campbell told BBC Scotland: "It was an amazing afternoon watching this pod of orcas. I regularly go out looking for sightings with some friends during my spare time."

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