Areas covered:

All of Dumfries and Galloway region

Local recorder for the area:

Gavin Chambers and Alyn Chambers, dgrecorder@gmail.com




Dumfries and Galloway Bird Report

Editor:

Jonathan Warren

Contributing authors:

Alex Banwell, Ian Bainbridge, Drew Davidson, Paul Donald, David Henshilwood, Colin Mitchell and Jonathan Warren

Prepared for publication by:

Christine Dudgeon

County Recorder:

Gavin Chambers and Alyn Chambers

Published by:

Scottish Ornithologists’ Club Dumfries and Galloway Branches 2026

Cover artwork:

Lucy Hadley

Photographs by:

Chris Baines, Andrew Bielinski, Paul Donald and Tony Gibson

Illustrations kindly provided by:

Brian Arneill, Paul  Collin, Andy Dowell, Francis Godfrey, Brian D Henderson, John Threlfall, Donald Watson (reproduced with the kind permission of the Watson family) and Ian Willis

Latest issue:

(No.35) 2024. Cost £7 + £3 p&p if necessary

Available from:

Peter Swan, 13, Robb Place, Castle Douglas DG7 1LW pandmswan@btinternet.com, 01556 502 144. Please make cheques payable to ‘SOC Dumfries and Galloway Branches”. 

First published:

1987

Back issues:

A limited selection of back issues are available priced at £4 including p&p.  Contact Peter as above for details.

Feedback:

If you would like to comment on any part of this report, including notification of errors or omissions, suggestions for improvements or on any other relevant matter, please contact the editor: jonathanwarren@btinternet.com

Dumfries and Galloway Bird Records Committee:

Species that the committee considers:

Red-necked Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Great Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, White-fronted Goose (albifrons), Taiga Bean Goose, Tundra Bean Goose, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Ringed-necked Duck, Surf Scoter, Honey Buzzard, Rough-legged Buzzard, Hobby, Ptarmigan, Capercaillie, Spotted Crake, Corncrake, Common Crane, Avocet, American Lesser Golden Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Temminck’s Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Long-tailed Skua (non-adults), Sabine’s Gull, Ringed-billed Gull, Iceland Gull (kumlieni), Roseate Tern, Little Auk, Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Wryneck, Shore Lark, Richard’s Pipit, Yellow Wagtail (all races), Bluethroat, Icterine Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Barred Warbler, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Bearded Tit, Marsh Tit, Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Chough, Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, Cirl Bunting, Lapland Bunting, Little Bunting, Corn Bunting, White-tailed Eagle, Egyptian Goose, White-billed Diver, Glossy Ibis, Little Owl, Rose-coloured Starling, Water Pipit and Hawfinch plus any other species not previously recorded in Dumfries & Galloway.

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