Topical content and stories from SOC headquarters and our friends around the country.
This year, I published a monograph, The Purple Sandpiper, based partly on studies and surveys carried out jointly by...
As a long-standing SOC and Central Scotland Raptor Study Group (SRSG) member, I monitor Peregrine sites in west...
Buoyed by the success of the first ever Scottish Bird Camp, in May 2022, SOC and BTO were excited to run Bird Camp...
It is all too rare that an entirely new space for birds and nature is created but at the beginning of June, the new...
How the season was going to unfold this year following the avian flu outbreak was unknown but, right on time, the...
During March, three groups of children from primary schools in central Edinburgh visited the SOC headquarters as part...
Lisa Hooper was recently asked by the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA), of which she is a member, to write an...
The Woodcock is one of our most enigmatic waders. Our only wader that nests in woodland, Scotland’s breeding Woodcock...
A language holds its own traditions and treasures. In Scottish Gaelic, the word “dualchas” encompasses the intimate...
I see raptors most days. As I walk the length of our croft in a village on the northwest coast of the Isle of Lewis,...
This article is based on the Celebrating Scotland’s first Bird Camp blog written by Steve Willis at BTO Scotland...
