Highlandrecording area

Area covered

Inverness-shire, Ross-shire and Sutherland.

Local recorder

The position of Highland recorder is currently unfilled. Anyone wishing to submit Highland bird records is asked to hold off doing so until a new recorder is appointed. Contact details of the next Highland recorder will be made available as soon as possible.

Highland Bird Report

Editor

Dave Butterfield.

Address for correspondence and purchases

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

First published

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

2007 report

£9.50 including p&p.

Cost of back issues

2003-2006: £6.50 including p&p.

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, Bittern, Little Egret, Spoonbill, Bewick's Swan, Bean Goose, White-fronted Goose [European race], Snow Goose, Lesser Canada Goose, American Wigeon Green-winged Teal, Garganey [females], Red-crested Pochard, Ring-necked Duck, Surf Scoter, Honey Buzzard, Hobby, Spotted Crake, 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], Iceland Gull [race kumlieni only], Roseate Tern, Barn Owl [dark-breasted form], Little Owl, Nightjar, Bee-eater, Shorelark, Rock Pipit [Scandinavian form littoralis], Richard's Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, Dipper [cinclus only], Reed Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Barred Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Pallas's Warbler, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Bearded Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Long-tailed Tit [white-headed race], Nuthatch, Golden Oriole, Chough, Rose-coloured Starling, and Common Rosefinch.