Area covered:
The Clyde area is defined as: South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire, City of Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, Stirlingshire (Clyde/Loch Lomond drainage areas, the Campsie Fells, and Carron Valley Reservoir), Argyll & Bute (former Dunbartonshire part, i.e. Loch Lomond/Clyde drainage including east side of Loch Long to Arrochar (then Loin Water as boundary).
Local Recorders:
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Recorder - John Simpson
Assistant Recorders - Val Wilson and John Sweeney
Record submission:
The Recorders will be happy to receive bird records at any time during the course of the year. The preferred option would be to use BirdTrack, the online bird recording system, operated by the BTO, the RSPB, Birdwatch Ireland and the SOC. All you need to do to get started is sign up as a BirdTrack user and register the sites where you birdwatch. Your records will automatically be made available for the production of Clyde Birds (provided you permit the local recorder to access them), for wider bird conservation issues and to track migration and distribution patterns.
Clyde Birds (incorporating the Clyde Bird Report)
Systematic List by:
Emma Anderson, Zul Bhatia, Tom Byars, Jim Coyle, Rebecca Dickson, Ian Fulton, Mitch Kerr, Marco McGinty, Sandy McNeil, Rod Miller, Andrew Russell, Nigel Scriven, Kevin Sinclair, Ben Swallow, Graham Thursby and Donald Wilson.
Published by:
SOC Clyde branch
Latest issue:
No 24 (2010)
Contents of Clyde Birds No. 24:
The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) 2010
Clyde Bird Species List 2010
Spring/summer and autumn/winter migrant arrival dates 2010
Systematic List 2010
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2010
Available from:
Back issues:
Systematic lists for other years are available from the SOC Clyde Branch website (see the Recording and Reporting tab).
Contents of previous reports:
Contents of Clyde Birds No. 22:
Clyde Bird Report 2008: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson
The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS)
Clyde Bird Species List 2008
Spring/summer and autumn/winter migrant arrival dates 2008
Systematic List 2008
Short notes
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2008: Bernie Zonfrillo
Contents of Clyde Birds No. 21:
Clyde Bird Report 2007: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson
The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS)
Clyde Bird Species List 2007
Spring/summer and autumn/winter migrant arrival dates 2007
Systematic List 2007
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2007: Iain Livingstone
Strathclyde Country Park Ringing Report 2007: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2007: Bernie Zonfrillo
Contents of Clyde Birds No. 20:
Clyde Bird Report 2006: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson
Clyde Bird Species List 2006
Systematic List 2006
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2006: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2006: Bernie Zonfrillo
Clyde Birds No. 19:
Clyde Bird Report 2005: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson, with illustrations by Tommy P Daniels
Clyde Bird Species List 2005
2005 Highlights of the Year
Systematic List 2005
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2005: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2005: Bernie Zonfrillo
Clyde Birds No. 18:
Clyde Bird Report 2004: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson, with illustrations by Tommy P Daniels
Clyde Bird Species List 2004
2004 Highlights of the Year
Systematic List 2004
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2004: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2004: Bernie Zonfrillo
Clyde Birds No. 17:
Clyde Bird Report 2003: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson, with illustrations by Tommy P Daniels
Clyde Bird Species List 2003
Review of the Year: Alan D Wood
Systematic List 2003
Hawfinch in Clyde: Christopher J McInerny
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2003: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2003: Bernie Zonfrillo
Clyde Birds No. 16:
Clyde Bird Report No 16: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson
Clyde Bird Species List 2002
2002 Highlights: Iain Gibson
Systematic List 2002
Mute Swan Census 2002: Jim and Val Wilson
A Recent History of Gadwall in the Clyde Area: Stuart Gibson
Clyde white-winged gulls in the winter of 2002: Christopher J McInerny & Stephen C Votier
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2002: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2002: Bernie Zonfrillo
With illustrations by Tommy P Daniels
Clyde Birds No. 15:
Clyde Bird Report No 15: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson
Clyde Bird Species List 2001
Review of the Year: James T M Towill
Systematic List 2001
A Peregrinator’s Progress: John Mitchell
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2001: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2001: Bernie Zonfrillo
with illustrations by Tommy P Daniels
Clyde Birds No. 14:
Clyde Bird Report No 14: Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson
Clyde Bird Species List 2000
Review of the Year: James T M Towill
Systematic List 2000
Fluctuating Numbers of Pochard in the Clyde Area: Stuart Gibson
A Record Influx of Iceland Gulls in the Clyde Area: Stuart Gibson
Clyde Ringing Group Report 2000: Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 2000: Bernie Zonfrillo
with illustrations by Tommy P Daniels
Clyde Birds No. 13:
Clyde Bird Report, 1999
Clyde Bird Species List 1999
Review of the Year – Iain Gibson
Systematic list 1999
Clyde Islands Bird Report 1999 – Bernie Zonfrillo
Clyde Birds No. 12:
Clyde Bird Report, 1998 – Iain P Gibson, Jim and Val Wilson
The Wetland Bird Survey
Clyde Bird Species List 1998
Review of the Year - Alan Wood
Systematic list 1998
Clyde Ringing Group Report 1998 – Iain Livingstone
Clyde Islands Bird Report 1998 – Bernie Zonfrillo
Clyde Bird Records Panel
Members:
Val Wilson (Secretary)
List of species that the committee considers:
SCOTTISH AND LOCAL RECORD COMMITTEES
Records of the following species will be accepted only if a satisfactory written description or photograph is submitted. Descriptions of species in bold type will be referred to the Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC List 2017 update). All others will be considered by the Clyde Bird Records Panel (CBRP). Under some circumstances a written description may be required for a species not on this list.
| Bewick’s Swan | Little Ringed Plover | Yellow-browed Warbler |
| Taiga Bean Goose (out of range) | Kentish Plover | Radde’s Warbler |
| Tundra Bean Goose | American Golden Plover | Dusky Warbler |
| European White-fronted Goose | Temminck’s Stint | Chiffchaff (except P c collybita) |
| Egyptian Goose | White-rumped Sandpiper | Barred Warbler |
| American Wigeon | Pectoral Sandpiper | Dartford Warbler |
| Green-winged Teal | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Subalpine Warbler (cantillans) |
| Ring-necked Duck | Red-necked Phalarope | Icterine Warbler |
| Ferruginous Duck | Grey Phalarope | Melodious Warbler |
| Surf Scoter (female only) | Pomarine Skua | Blyth’s Reed Warbler |
| Black-throated Diver (winter) | Long-tailed Skua | Marsh Warbler |
| White-billed Diver | Mediterranean Gull (immatures) | Reed Warbler |
| Cory’s Shearwater | Sabine’s Gull | Nuthatch (outside known range) |
| Great Shearwater | Ring-billed Gull | Rose-coloured Starling |
| Sooty Shearwater | Yellow-legged Gull | Nightingale |
| Balearic Shearwater | Caspian Gull | Bluethroat |
| Wilson’s Petrel | Iceland Gull – L g kumlieni known as ‘Kumlien’s Gull’ | Red-flanked Bluetail |
| Storm Petrel | White-winged Black Tern | Red-breasted Flycatcher |
| Leach’s Petrel | Roseate Tern | Yellow Wagtail (all forms except subspecies flavissima) |
| Night-heron | Turtle Dove | Citrine Wagtail |
| Cattle Egret | Little Owl | Richard’s Pipit |
| Little Egret | Nightjar | Olive-backed Pipit |
| Great White Egret | Alpine Swift | Rock Pipit (Scandinavian) |
| Purple Heron | Bee-eater | Water Pipit |
| White Stork | Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Serin |
| Glossy Ibis | Golden Oriole | Mealy Redpoll |
| Spoonbill | Woodchat Shrike | Arctic Redpoll (C h exilipes) |
| Black-necked Grebe (winter) | Chough | Scottish Crossbill |
| Honey Buzzard | Firecrest | Parrot Crossbill |
| Black Kite | Willow Tit (out of known range) | Common Rosefinch |
| Red Kite | Marsh Tit | Bullfinch (Northern race) |
| White-tailed Eagle | Bearded Tit | Hawfinch |
| Montagu’s Harrier | Short-toed Lark | Lapland Bunting |
| Rough-legged Buzzard | Woodlark | Cirl Bunting |
| Goshawk | Red-rumped Swallow | Ortolan Bunting |
| Red-footed Falcon | Cetti’s Warbler | Little Bunting |
| Hobby | Greenish Warbler | Corn Bunting |
| Crane | Pallas’s Warbler | |
| Stone-curlew | ||
| Black-winged Stilt |
Descriptions of the above species (or subspecies) should be submitted to the Assistant Recorder. In addition a number of subspecies recorded in Scotland on fewer than twenty occasions require submission (see Records of species and subspecies recorded in Scotland on up to 20 occasions). National rarity descriptions for the British Birds Rarities Committee should also be sent to the Assistant Recorder, who can supply the appropriate form, as soon as possible after the date of observation.
Useful links:
- Visit the SOC Clyde branch page
- Clyde Islands recording area
- Find out more about BirdTrack
- Recording area homepage
