Fiferecording area

Area covered

Mainland Fife

Local recorder

Malcolm Ware
15a King Street
Inverkeithing
Fife
KY11 1NB
tel 07733 991030

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

Malcolm Ware (contact details as above).

Address for purchases

Malcolm Ware (contact details as above).

First published

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

Cost of back issues

Costs under review. Contact the editor for information on prices and availability.

Forth Islands Bird Report

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

The Fife Winter Atlas

Updating of the Fife Bird Atlas (published in 2003) is currently in progress, using data gathered for BirdAtlas 2007-11. Fieldwork for a winter tetrad atlas is ongoing and records from less well covered tetrads for winter are welcome, both past records from 2011/12 and also for the next winter of 2012/13. This will enhance the winter data of the previous atlas, which was gathered at a 5km square level. Although a repeat of the breeding atlas is not envisaged, further breeding records at tetrad level for the 2012 breeding season will also be welcome, again in the less well-covered areas (ie away from the usual hotspots). Breeding status codes should be added to all records, which should be submitted on the BirdTrack or BirdAtlas websites. Records in 10km squares NT29, NO30, NO40 and NO50 will be particularly welcome. Anyone wishing to target any of these tetrads should get in touch with Norman Elkins. Sufficient records will then be available to allow meaningful comparisons with the previous atlas. Already there have been worrying and major contractions in the distribution of some species such as Green Woodpecker, Lapwing and Grey Partridge.

Fife Local Records Committee

Members

Willie McBay, Rob Armstrong, John Nadin, Ken Shaw, and Malcolm Ware (Chair).

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.