Dumfries and Gallowayrecording area

Area covered

All of Dumfries and Galloway Region.

Local recorder

Paul Collin
'Gairland'
Old Edinburgh Road
Minnigaff
Newton Stewart
Wigtownshire
DG8 6PL

Dumfries and Galloway Bird Report

D & G Bird Report cover

Editor

Duncan Irving, with contributing authors Andy Riches, Mike Youdale, Richard Mearns, Valerie Harrison, Drew Davidson, Alyn Chambers, Gavin Chambers, Colin Mitchell, Duncan Irving and Alison Robertson.

Address for correspondence

Peter Swan, 3 Castle View, Castle Douglas, DG7 1BG. Tel 01556 502144.

First published

1987.

Address for purchases

As above. Please make cheques payable to "SOC Dumfries & Galloway Branches".

Current issue

No 21 (2010) features artwork by Paul Collin and photographs by Brian Henderson, Patrick Whalley, David Ledan, and Boris Penot. It costs £6 for SOC members and £8 for non-members, and is available by post (please add £1.50 p&p) from the address above, or from

Please phone to check availability before travelling.

Back issues

No 20 (2009) is available for £5 (SOC members) or £7 (non members), including p&p. Most back-issues prior to 2009 are available priced £3 including p&p.

Dumfries & Galloway Bird Records Committee

Species that the committee considers

Black-throated Diver (winter plumage), Red-necked Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Cory's Shearwater, Great Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, Purple Heron, White-fronted Goose (albifrons), Bean Goose, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Ferruginous Duck, Ringed-necked Duck, Surf Scoter, Honey Buzzard, Montagu's Harrier, Rough-legged Buzzard, Hobby, Ptarmigan, Capercaillie, Spotted Crake, Corncrake, Common Crane, Stone Curlew, Avocet, American Lesser Golden Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Temminck's Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Long-tailed Skua (non adults), Sabine's Gull, Ringed-billed Gull, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Iceland Gull (kumlieni), Roseate Tern, Little Auk, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Short-toed Lark, Woodlark, Shore Lark, Richard's Pipit, Tawny Pipit, Yellow Wagtail (all races), Bluethroat, Yellow-browed Warbler, Pallas's Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Barred Warbler, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Bearded Tit, Marsh Tit, Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Woodchat Shrike, Chough, Serin, Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, Cirl Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Lapland Bunting, Little Bunting, Corn Bunting, plus any other species not previously recorded in Dumfries & Galloway.

Species in bold will be forwarded to the Scottish Bird Records Committee for assessment.