Lek It Be - Protecting our Capercaillie
There are only 532 Capercaillie left in the UK. That's half the number of birds we had five years ago...
BirdTrack
David Raffle is the Birding and Science Officer for the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC). As part of...
Water Rail in the Tay Reedbeds
Derek Robertson is a professional wildlife artist, a long-term member of the SOC, and an active ringer...
SOC Annual Conference – a speaker’s eye view
The Club’s 2023 annual get-together took place on the weekend of 24-26 November at the Atholl Palace...
A fifty-year study of Purple Sandpipers – what next?
This year, I published a monograph, The Purple Sandpiper, based partly on studies and surveys carried out...
Glasgow Peregrine Project
As a long-standing SOC and Central Scotland Raptor Study Group (SRSG) member, I monitor Peregrine sites in west...
SOC/BTO Scotland Scottish Bird Camp 2023
Buoyed by the success of the first ever Scottish Bird Camp, in May 2022, SOC and BTO...
Musselburgh Lagoons – past, present and future
It is all too rare that an entirely new space for birds and nature is created but...
A new page for the Bass Rock gannetry
How the season was going to unfold this year following the avian flu outbreak was unknown but,...
Waterston House welcomes Fledglings
During March, three groups of children from primary schools in central Edinburgh visited the SOC headquarters as...