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:
2021 (digital) and print version
The report includes:
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial
- Guide for submitting bird records
- Contributors to Highland Bird Report 2021
- Reporting rare or scarce species and recent rarity decisions
- Highland weather in 2021
- Review of the ornithological year 2021
- Systematic list for 2021
- Escapes and presumed feral birds
- First and last dates of common migrants
- Spring seaducks at Portmahomack 2021
- Forty-six years of ringing in a north coast garden
- The Fladaigh
- Coloured illustrations are included throughout the text
Cost:
The digital version is free to download here. 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 cost £10 and 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.. A few copies are also available from SOC HQ at Waterston House.
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 March 2021).
Bewick’s Swan
Taiga Bean Goose
Tundra Bean Goose
Dark-bellied Brent Goose
Egyptian Goose
Snow Goose
European White-fronted Goose
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Garganey (Females/imm only)
Red-crested Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
Surf Scoter
Smew
Ruddy Duck
White-billed Diver
Balearic Shearwater
Leach's Petrel (Inner Moray Firth only)
Continental Cormorant (ssp sinensis)
Bittern
Great White Egret
White Stork
Glossy Ibis
Spoonbill
Red-necked Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Honey Buzzard
Rough-legged Buzzard
Hobby
Ring-necked Parakeet
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
Long-tailed Skua (juveniles and immatures)
Sabine’s Gull (east coast records only)
Kumlien's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Roseate Tern
Black Tern (adults and immatures)
Turtle Dove
Little Owl
Nightjar
Bee-eater
Wryneck
Shorelark
Scandinavian Rock Pipit (ssp. littoralis)
Richard’s Pipit
Olive-backed Pipit
Water Pipit
Yellow Wagtail (all races)
Reed Warbler
Blyth's Reed Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Barred Warbler
Siberian Chiffchaff (ssp. tristis)
Pallas’s Warbler
Firecrest
Bluethroat
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Bearded Tit
Marsh Tit
Willow Tit
Golden Oriole
Red-backed Shrike
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)
Little Bunting
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
