Area covered:
All of Dumfries and Galloway region
Local recorder for the area:
Paul Collin
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‘Gairland’, Old Edinburgh Road
Minnigaff, Newton Stewart
Wigtownshire, DG8 6PL
Dumfries and Galloway Bird Report
Editor:
Brian. D Henderson
Contributing authors:
Gavin Chambers, Drew Davidson, Brian D. Henderson, Colin Mitchell and Alison Robertson.
Prepared for publication by:
Christine Dudgeon
County Recorder:
Paul N. Collin
Cover artwork:
Lisa Hooper
Centrefold photographs by:
Ruth Eastwood, K Freemantle, Dan Gornall, Brian D Henderson, David Henderson and Milo Lazar
Illustrations by:
Illustrations kindly supplied by: Brian Arneill, Paul Collin, Andy Dowell, Brian D.Henderson, Ian Willis and Donald Watson (Donald Watson's images reproduced with kind permission of the Watson family).
Published by:
South West Scotland Environmental Information Centre on behalf of the Dumfries and Galloway Bird Report Working Group
Latest issue:
No 30 (2019). Cost: £10, plus £2 UK p&p if necessary.
Available from:
Peter Swan, 13, Robb Place, Castle Douglas DG7 1LW This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 01556 502 144. Please make cheques payable to ‘SOC Dumfries and Galloway Branches”. Copies (priced at £10) are also available to collect, by prior arrangement, from Peter or from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (New Galloway, Tel. 01644 420 280), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Dalbeattie, Tel. 01556 620617) or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Lockerbie, Tel. 01576 202591/07906 912558).
First published:
1987
Back issues:
Most back issues are available, priced at £6 including p&p. Contact Peter or Joan, as above, for details.
Address for correspondence:
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Dumfries & Galloway Bird Records Committee
Species that the committee considers:
Red-necked Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Cory’s Shearwater, Great Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, Purple Heron, White-fronted Goose (albifrons), Bean Goose, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Ferruginous Duck, Ringed-necked Duck, Surf Scoter, Honey Buzzard, Montagu’s Harrier, Rough-legged Buzzard, Hobby, Ptarmigan, Capercaillie, Spotted Crake, Corncrake, Common Crane, Stone Curlew, Avocet, American Lesser Golden Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Temminck’s Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Long-tailed Skua (non-adults), Sabine’s Gull, Ringed-billed Gull, Caspian Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Iceland Gull (kumlieni), Roseate Tern, Little Auk, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Short-toed Lark, Woodlark, Shore Lark, Richard’s Pipit, Tawny Pipit, Yellow Wagtail (all races), Bluethroat, Pallas’s Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Barred Warbler, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Bearded Tit, Marsh Tit, Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Woodchat Shrike, Chough, Serin, Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, Cirl Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Lapland Bunting, Little Bunting, Corn Bunting, plus any other species not previously recorded in Dumfries & Galloway.
Species in bold will be forwarded to the Scottish Bird Records Committee for assessment.
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