Bordersrecording area

Area covered

Scottish Borders - local government area.

Local recorder

Ray Murray
4 Bellfield Crescent
Eddleston
Peebles
EH45 8RQ
tel 01721 730677

Record submission

Date order preferred. May be able to accept databased or spreadsheet records - please contact Recorder. Will accept records at any time of year but prefer quarterly rather than annually.

Borders Bird Report

Borders Bird Report cover

Editor

Ray Murray.

First year of publication

1980.

Address for purchases

Malcolm Ross, Westfield, Smailholm, Kelso.

2010 report

Borders Bird Report No 27, covering 2010, can be obtained from

The report costs £8.50 (or £9.50 including p&p if ordered by post from Malcolm Ross; please make cheques payable to Borders SOC).

* At the time of writing, we expect copies to be on sale at Waterston House and Viking Optical in the first week of February, but please phone to check first.

In addition to the usual systemtic list and ringing report, BBR No 27 includes articles on the demise of the Tufted Duck in the Borders, and a report from recent Black Grouse population monitoring.

Back numbers

Most are available; contact Malcolm Ross for prices.

Borders Local Records Committee

Members

Ray Murray, Peter Gordon and Kevin Rideout.

Species that the committee considers

Leach's Petrel, Bittern, Bean Goose, Snow Goose, Red Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Spotted Crake, Avocet, Temminck's Stint, Grey Phalarope, Red-necked Phalarope, Long-tailed Skua, Roseate Tern, Little Owl, Nightjar, Hoopoe, Shore Lark, Golden Oriole.

Scottish rarities (ie all those on the SBRC List) should also be sent to the Recorder, who will forward them to SBRC.

South-East Scotland Bird Atlas

Lothian and Borders regions have joined forces to run a local Bird Atlas project in parallel with the national 2007-11 Bird Atlas. For more details, including information on how to take part and preliminary species maps, see the South-East Scotland Bird Atlas website at www.the-soc.org.uk/se-atlas.