Areas covered:

Perth and Kinross District

Local recorder for the area:

George Dunbar, email, tel 07765 183697

Record submission:

We now prefer to receive Perth & Kinross bird records via BirdTrack , the online 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.

If you use BirdTrack  to record your sightings, it will create a personal ‘diary’ you can view online. Your records will automatically be made available for the production of the Perth & Kinross Bird Report (provided you permit the local recorder to access them), for wider bird conservation issues, and to track migration and distribution patterns.

We do however continue to accept records sent directly to the local recorder at the address above. Various formats can be used: – A Microsoft Works or Excel spreadsheet – A Word document or equivalent. Records must be in a table format, with a column for each field. – As a last resort, on paper – but only if less than one hundred records, due to the time required to transfer to computer. In all cases the important thing is to include the following information: species name, count (just digits), age/sex etc, locality, date (dd/mm/yyyy), comments.

Perth & Kinross Bird Report

Editor:

Scott Paterson (email)

Latest issue:

The Perth & Kinross Bird Report was last published in 2006

Available from:

Scott Paterson (as above)

Back issues:

A PDF version of the Perth & Kinross Bird Reports issues 1998 to 2006, are available from Scott Paterson (as above). 

Perth & Kinross Bird Records Committee:

Members:

Mike Bell, Keith Brockie, David Douglas and Ken Shaw

Species that the committee considers:

Perth and Kinross Description Species List 2023

Bewick’s Swan Bean Goose (Taiga & Tundra) White-fronted Goose Brent Goose American Wigeon Green-winged Teal Garganey Red-crested Pochard Ring-necked Duck Eider Common Scoter Velvet Scoter Long-tailed Duck Smew Capercaillie Great Northern Diver Black-necked Grebe Red-necked Grebe Storm Petrel Leach’s Petrel Gannet Shag Bittern Great White Egret Rough-legged Buzzard Honey Buzzard Goshawk Hobby Spotted Crake Corncrake Crane Avocet Little Ringed Plover American Golden Plover Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Temminck’s Stint Little Stint Grey Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope All Skuas Sabine’s Gull Glaucous Gull Iceland Gull Mediterranean Gull Ring-billed Gull Black Tern Roseate Tern All auks Turtle Dove Little Owl Nightjar Bee-eater Hoopoe Wryneck Woodlark Shorelark Richard’s Pipit Water Pipit Bluethroat Black Redstart Barred Warbler Reed Warbler (away from Tay Reedbeds) Icterine Warbler ‘Siberian’ Chiffchaff Yellow-browed Warbler Pallas’s Warbler Firecrest Red-breasted Flycatcher Crested Tit Marsh Tit Willow Tit Bearded Tit (away from Tay Reedbeds) Great Grey Shrike Red-backed Shrike Chough Hooded Crow Rose-coloured Starling Golden Oriole Mealy Redpoll Hawfinch Common Rosefinch Snow Bunting Lapland Bunting Corn Bunting

And any other species, not considered by the BBRC or SBRC, which is very rare or scarce in Perth & Kinross. Scottish rarities (i.e. those in capitals on the SBRC List) should also be sent to the Recorder, who will forward them to SBRC.

Kinross Bird Atlas

During the fieldwork for BirdAtlas 2007-11, data for the old county of Kinross were gathered from all of its 71 tetrads. The data are in the process of being mapped, eventually to be uploaded on to a CD. Contact Norman Elkins for details.

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