Highlandrecording area
Area covered
Inverness-shire, Ross-shire and Sutherland.
Local recorder
Hugh Insley
1 Drummond Place
Inverness
IV2 4JT
tel 07831 479804
Highland Bird Report
Editor
Alex Joss.
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.)
2008 report
£9.50 including p&p.
Cost of back issues
2003-2007: £6.50 including p&p.
Highland Bird Report Gazetteer
SOC Highland branch has produced a gazetteer, listing over 2000 site names referred to in the Highland Bird Report and their grid references. Click on a link below to download the gazetteer as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or as a PDF file.
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.