Highlandrecording area

Area covered

Inverness-shire, Ross-shire and Sutherland.

Local recorder

Alastair F McNee
Liathach
4 Balnafettack Place
INVERNESS
IV3 8TQ
tel 01463 220493

Highland Bird Report

Editor

Alastair McNee.

Address for correspondence and purchases

As above.

First published

1995. (Photocopied version 1983-94; also Caithness Bird Report 1983-94, photocopied version 1976-82.)

Cost of back issues

1998 - £5.00; 2002 - £6.50 incl p&p from Editor.

Birding Highland

This is an online newsletter, produced by the bird recording group of the SOC Highland Branch, at www.birdinghighland.com.

Highlands Records Committee

Records of the following species occurring in the Highland recording area must be accompanied by a written description in order to be admitted into the annual Highland Bird Report.

Black-necked Grebe, Balearic Shearwater, Leach's Petrel, Bittern, Little Egret, White Stork, Spoonbill, Bewick's Swan, Bean Goose, White-fronted Goose [European race], Green-winged Teal, Garganey [females], Red-crested Pochard, Ring-necked Duck, Surf Scoter, Honey Buzzard, Hobby, Spotted Crake, Crane, Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Temminck's Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Long-tailed Skua [juveniles], Mediterranean Gull, Sabine's Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull [other than graellsii], Roseate Tern, Barn Owl [dark-breasted form], Little Owl, Nightjar, Bee-eater, Rock Pipit [Scandinavian form littoralis], Richard's Pipit, Yellow Wagtail , Bluethroat, Reed Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Barred Warbler, Pallas's Warbler, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Bearded Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Long-tailed Tit [white-headed race], Nuthatch, Golden Oriole, Chough, and Common Rosefinch.