Area covered:
Inverness District, Ross-shire, Sutherland, Badenoch & Strathspey, Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh
Local recorder for the area:
John Poyner
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01479 821357
6, Mackenzie Crescent, Nethybridge, Highland, PH25 3DU
Highland Bird Report
Editor:
Alex Joss
Published by:
SOC Highland branch
Latest issue:
The report includes:
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial
- Guide for submitting bird records
- Contributors to Highland Bird Report 2019
- Reporting rare or scarce species and recent rarity decisions
- Highland weather in 2019
- Review of the ornithological year 2019
- Systematic list for 2019
- Escapes and presumed feral birds
- First and last dates of common migrants
- Bird ringing in Highland recording area during 2019
- A good year in the north-west
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Wester Ross
- A good year in south-east Sutherland
- Coloured illustrations are included throughout the text, as opposed to one block of 8 pages as in previous reports
Cost:
The digital version is free to download. Details for purchasing a printed copy can be found below.
Available from:
The digital report is free to view on the Highland Birds website. Bound printed copies can be purchased by request from SOC Highland branch via Alex Joss, 8 Green Drive, Inverness, IV2 4EX, or contact Alex by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
First published:
1995. (Photocopied version 1983-94; also Caithness Bird Report 1983-94, photocopied version 1976-82.)
Back issues:
2018, 2017 and 2016 copies are both £9 (plus £2 P&P). All previous copies are free apart from £2 P&P but 2008 is sold out. For multiple postings we can usually pack 2 reports to an envelope and charge £3.00 postage per envelope. Please contact Alex Joss (as above).
Highland Bird Report Gazetteer
SOC Highland branch has produced a gazetteer, listing almost 2600 site names referred to in the Highland Bird Report and their grid references. Locations in red are new entries in the 2015 or 16 report. Download the 2015/16 gazetteer as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Highlands Records Committee
Records of any of the following species in the Highland recording area requires a formal description using this form (last updated April 2019).
Bewick’s Swan
Dark-bellied Brent Goose
Tundra Bean Goose
Taiga Bean Goose
Egyptian Goose (added 2017)
Snow Goose
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Garganey
Red-crested Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
Surf Scoter
Ruddy Duck (added 2017)
Smew (added 2018)
Balearic Shearwater
Continental Cormorant (ssp sinensis)
Bittern
Great White Egret
White Stork
Glossy Ibis (added 2017)
Spoonbill
Red-necked Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
White-billed Diver (added 2019)
Honey Buzzard
Rough-legged Buzzard
Hobby
Ring-necked Parakeet (added 2017)
Spotted Crake
Common Crane
Avocet
American Golden Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Temminck’s Stint
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Grey Phalarope
Spotted Redshank (added 2017)
Long-tailed Skua (juveniles and immatures)
Sabine’s Gull (Inner Moray Firth only)
Kumlien’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Roseate Tern
Black Tern (juveniles)
Little Owl
Nightjar
Bee-eater
Wryneck
Shorelark
Scandinavian Rock Pipit (ssp. littoralis)
Richard’s Pipit
Water Pipit
Yellow Wagtail (all races)
Reed Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Barred Warbler
Siberian Chiffchaff (ssp. tristis)
Pallas’s Warbler
Firecrest
Bluethroat (added 2017)
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Bearded Tit
Marsh Tit
Willow Tit
Golden Oriole
Red-backed Shrike
Nordic Jackdaw (ssp. monedula)
Chough
Rose-coloured Starling
Common Rosefinch
Scottish Crossbill (SBRC species in Skye and the small isles)
Parrot Crossbill (SBRC species in Sutherland, Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh)
Useful links
- Visit the SOC Highland branch page. Click here to visit the branch’s website, Highland Birds.
- Where to birdwatch around Scotland
- Find out more about BirdTrack
- Recording area homepage
