Fiferecording area

Area covered

Mainland Fife.

Local recorder

Rab Shand
33 Liddle Drive
Bo'ness
West Lothian
EH51 0PA
home tel 01506 825101
mob 07824 630603

Record submission

Preferably by email, using MS Excel spreadsheet if possible, but any format can be accepted. Please send records with headings in the following order - Species, Date, Location, Number of birds + age/sex (where applicable), Observer's name, Comments. Records can be sent any time during the current year and until March of the following year.

Fife Bird Report

Area covered

Mainland Fife and the inner Forth islands.

Editor

Rab Shand (contact details as above).

Address for purchases

Rab Shand (contact details as above).

First published

Fife and Kinross Bird Report 1980-87, then Fife Bird Report from 1988.

Cost of back issues

1980 - £0.50; 1988-91, 1995, 1997, 1999 - £2.00; 2000-2004 - £4.00, 2005 - £6.00; 2006 - £7.00; 2007 - £10.50 (due Dec 2008/Jan 2009). Postage additional (approx £1.00). Reductions available for multiple purchases. Second-hand copies of years not listed are occasionally available.

Forth Islands Bird Report

Available from Forth Seabird Group, c/o Vane Farm, Kinross, Tayside, KY12 7LX.

Fife Local Records Committee

Members

Willie McBay, Tom Moodie, John Nadin, Rab Shand (chair), Ken Shaw.

Species that the committee considers

Bean Goose, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Garganey (females and eclipse males only), Red-crested Pochard (females and eclipse males only), Ring-necked Duck, Surf Scoter (females and eclipse males only), Black Grouse, Western Capercaillie, Balearic Shearwater, Leach's Storm-petrel, Little Egret, White Stork, Eurasian Spoonbill, Red Kite, European Honey-buzzard, Northern Goshawk, Golden Eagle, Eurasian Hobby, Spotted Crake, Common Crane, Temminck's Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Sabine's Gull, Long-tailed Skua (juvs only), European Nightjar, European Bee-eater, Horned Lark, Richard's Pipit, Barred Warbler, Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Wood Nuthatch, Golden Oriole, Rosy Starling, Red-billed Chough, Hooded Crow, Hawfinch, Common Rosefinch, Common Redpoll, Lapland Bunting.

A description could also be required for other species not on the list whenever deemed necessary by the Recorder.