Angus and Dundeerecording area

Area covered

Angus and Dundee City.

Local recorder

Jon Cook
76 Torridon Road
Broughty Ferry
Dundee
DD5 3JH
tel 01382 738495

Record submission

The preferred method is through BirdTrack. Records made using the SOC Angus database or the earlier general SOC spreadsheet can still be used, as can written records, preferably in date and location order. Please submit all records by February of the following year.

Angus and Dundee Bird Report

Editor

Jon Cook

Correspondence and purchases

Contact Jon Cook (details above).

First published

1985.

2008 report

The Angus and Dundee Bird Report 2008 will be available from around 25th October, priced £7.50, from Montrose Basin Visitor Centre, Waterston House, or by post from the editor (see above - p&p £1.50, cheques payable to Angus and Dundee Bird Club please). The Report is in the attractive 'perfect binding' format and has full colour front and back pages with a map of the area. Inside it contains colour photographs, a systematic list of the species recorded, and an article on the Tree Sparrow colony at Roundyhill.

Angus and Dundee Bird Records Committee

Members

Jon Cook (Secretary), Richard Bramhall, Bob McCurley, Chris McGuigan, Clive McKay and Graham Smith.

Species that the comittee considers

(CAPITALS indicate an SBRC species.)

Bewick's Swan, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Ring-necked Duck, FERRUGINOUS DUCK, Surf Scoter (female only), Capercaillie, WHITE-BILLED DIVER, CORY'S SHEARWATER, GREAT SHEARWATER, Balearic Shearwater, WILSON'S STORM PETREL, Leach's Petrel, Bittern, NIGHT HERON, CATTLE EGRET, Little Egret, GREAT WHITE EGRET, PURPLE HERON, White stork, Spoonbill, Honey-buzzard, BLACK KITE, MONTAGU'S HARRIER, ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD, RED-FOOTED FALCON, Hobby, Spotted Crake, Corn Crake, Crane, Avocet, STONE-CURLEW, Little Ringed Plover, KENTISH PLOVER, American Golden Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper, Temminck's Stint, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, Pectoral Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Sabine's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, YELLOW-LEGGED GULL, CASPIAN GULL, WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN, Black Guillemot, Little Owl, Nightjar, ALPINE SWIFT, Bee-eater, LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER, WOODCHAT SHRIKE, SHORT-TOED LARK, WOOD LARK, Shore Lark, RED-RUMPED SWALLOW, Richard's Pipit, TAWNY PIPIT, RED-THROATED PIPIT, WATER PIPIT, NIGHTINGALE, Bluethroat, CETTI'S WARBLER, AQUATIC WARBLER, MARSH WARBLER, Icterine Warbler, MELODIOUS WARBLER, Barred Warbler, DARTFORD WARBLER, Pallas's Warbler, SUBALPINE WARBLER, GREENISH WARBLER, RADDE'S WARBLER, DUSKY WARBLER, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Bearded Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Crested Tit, Nuthatch, Golden Oriole, WOODCHAT SHRIKE, Chough, Rose-coloured Starling, EUROPEAN SERIN, ARCTIC REDPOLL, Scottish Crossbill, PARROT CROSSBILL, Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, CIRL BUNTING, ORTOLAN BUNTING, RUSTIC BUNTING, LITTLE BUNTING, plus any other species not previously recorded in Angus.

Please submit descriptions for these species to the local recorder (see above) on the SBRC form. They will be forwarded to the correct committee and the observer advised of the outcome. If the bird was photographed it is most helpful to include one or more images. For Crossbills a sound recording, sonogram or biometric data is likely to be required.