species maps from the NBN Gateway

Select a species and (optionally) a region, and click on the button to display a map.

Select a species Mute Swan Tundra Swan Whooper Swan Bean Goose Pink-footed Goose Greater White-fronted Goose European White-fronted Goose Greenland White-fronted Goose Greylag Goose Snow Goose Greater Canada Goose Barnacle Goose Brent Goose Dark-bellied Brent Goose Pale-bellied Brent Goose Common Shelduck Mandarin Duck Eurasian Wigeon Gadwall Eurasian Teal Green-winged Teal Mallard Northern Pintail Garganey Northern Shoveler Common Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Common Eider Long-tailed Duck Common Scoter Surf Scoter Velvet Scoter Common Goldeneye Smew Red-breasted Merganser Goosander Ruddy Duck Willow Ptarmigan (Red Grouse) Rock Ptarmigan Black Grouse Western Capercaillie Red-legged Partridge Grey Partridge Common Quail Common Pheasant Red-throated Diver Black-throated Diver Great Northern Diver Yellow-billed Diver Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Red-necked Grebe Slavonian Grebe Black-necked Grebe Northern Fulmar Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater Balearic Shearwater European Storm-petrel Northern Gannet Great Cormorant European Shag Great Bittern Little Egret Grey Heron European Honey-buzzard Red Kite White-tailed Eagle Eurasian Marsh Harrier Hen Harrier Northern Goshawk Eurasian Sparrowhawk Common Buzzard Golden Eagle Osprey Common Kestrel Merlin Eurasian Hobby Peregrine Falcon Water Rail Corn Crake Common Moorhen Common Coot Eurasian Oystercatcher Little Plover Ringed Plover Eurasian Dotterel European Golden Plover Grey Plover Northern Lapwing Red Knot Sanderling Little Stint Curlew Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Ruff Jack Snipe Common Snipe Eurasian Woodcock Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Whimbrel Eurasian Curlew Common Redshank Common Greenshank Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red-necked Phalarope Grey Phalarope Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua Long-tailed Skua Great Skua Mediterranean Gull Little Gull Black-headed Gull Mew Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Yellow-legged Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Little Tern Sandwich Tern Common Tern Roseate Tern Arctic Tern Common Guillemot Razorbill Black Guillemot Little Auk Atlantic Puffin Rock Pigeon Feral Pigeon Stock Pigeon Common Wood Pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove European Turtle Dove Common Cuckoo Barn Owl Little Owl Tawny Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl European Nightjar Common Swift Common Kingfisher Green Woodpecker Great Spotted Woodpecker Wood Lark Sky Lark Horned Lark Sand Martin Tree Swallow Barn Swallow House Martin Tree Pipit Meadow Pipit Rock Pipit Water Pipit Yellow Wagtail Grey Wagtail White Wagtail Pied Wagtail Bohemian Waxwing White-throated Dipper Winter Wren Hedge Accentor European Robin Common Nightingale Black Redstart Common Redstart Whinchat Stonechat Northern Wheatear Ring Ouzel Common Blackbird Fieldfare Song Thrush Redwing Mistle Thrush Common Grasshopper Warbler Sedge Warbler Eurasian Reed Warbler Blackcap Garden Warbler Lesser Whitethroat Common Whitethroat Dartford Warbler Wood Warbler Common Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Goldcrest Firecrest Spotted Flycatcher Pied Flycatcher Bearded Tit Long-tailed Tit Blue Tit Great Tit Crested Tit Coal Tit Willow Tit Marsh Tit Wood Nuthatch Eurasian Treecreeper Red-backed Shrike Great Grey Shrike Eurasian Jay Black-billed Magpie Red-billed Chough Eurasian Jackdaw Rook Carrion Crow Hooded Crow Common Raven Common Starling House Sparrow Eurasian Tree Sparrow Chaffinch Brambling European Greenfinch European Goldfinch Eurasian Siskin Common Linnet Twite Common Redpoll Lesser Redpoll Common Crossbill Scottish Crossbill Parrot Crossbill Crossbill sp Common Bullfinch Hawfinch Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Yellowhammer Reed Bunting Corn Bunting all areas Borders: Berwickshire Borders: Peebles Borders: Roxburgh Borders: Selkirk Clyde: Dunbarton Clyde: Lanarkshire Clyde: Renfrewshire Clyde: Stirling Clyde: West Perth Fife Highland: East Ross Highland: East Sutherland Highland: Easterness Highland: North Ebudes Highland: West Ross Highland: West Sutherland Highland: Westerness Lothian: Edinburgh Lothian: Haddington Lothian: Linlithgow NE Scotland: Banff NE Scotland: Kincardine NE Scotland: South Aberdeen NE Scotland: North Aberdeen

SOC datasets on the NBN Gateway

The Scottish Recorders' Network has been working closely with the National Biodiversity Network to upload bird records onto the NBN Gateway website. The website acts as a shop window and one-stop shop for planners, councillors, conservation agencies etc who need to know what datasets are available when they are involved in planning decisions.

The SOC has loaded several datasets, comprising over 260,000 individual records, onto the NBN Gateway. These include the results from tetrad atlas surveys of Clyde, Fife, Lothian & Borders, and NE Scotland, and bird records for the Highland recording area for 2002/03.

This page accesses the NBN Gateway 'behind the scenes' to plot distribution maps of bird species, based on the SOC's datasets. Note that the regions plotted are Vice-counties rather than local recording areas, but the drop-down list also shows the corresponding recording areas.