Orkneyrecording area

Area covered

Orkney Islands.

Local Recorder

Jim Williams
Fairholm
FINSTOWN
Orkney
KW17 2EQ
tel 01856 761317

Orkney Bird Report

Editors

Colin Corse, Tim Dean and Jim Williams.

Address for correspondence and purchases

Jim Williams (see above).

First published

1980.

Cost of back issues

£6.00 for 2000 report.

Orkney Birds Records Committee

Members

T Dean, P Donnelly and ER Meek.

List of species that the committee considers

(written descriptions are needed for all records of species marked *)

*Black-necked Grebe, Great Bittern, Little Egret, *White Stork, *Spoonbill, Bewick's Swan, Bean Goose, *Green-winged Teal, Red-crested Pochard, *Surf Scoter, *Honey Buzzard, Goshawk, Hobby, Ptarmigan, Black Grouse, Spotted Crake, Common Crane, *Little Ringed Plover, *Temminck's Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, *Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Long-tailed Skua, *Mediterranean Gull, *Sabine's Gull, Roseate Tern, Black Tern, Stock Dove, Barn Owl, Little Owl, Nightjar, *Bee-eater, Green Woodpecker, Richard's Pipit, *Tawny Pipit, *Water Pipit, *Scandinavian Rock Pipit (A.p. littoralis), *Nightingale, Marsh Warbler, Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Crested Tit, Nuthatch, *Woodchat Shrike, Jay, Magpie, Chough, Common Rosefinch, Ortolan Bunting.