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:
2022 (digital) and print version
The report includes:
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial
- Guide for submitting bird records
- Contributors to Highland Bird Report 2022
- Reporting rare or scarce species and recent rarity decisions
- Highland weather in 2022
- Review of the ornithological year 2022
- Systematic list for 2022
- Escapes and presumed feral birds
- First and last dates of common migrants
- Bird ringing in Highland recording area during 2022
- A Serin on the Isle of Eigg from 21-29 November
- Autumn birds at the Carse of Ardersier
- 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 (plus £2.50 P&P) and can be purchased by request from SOC Highland Branch via Carol Miller, Dunbeath, Balbeg, Balnain, Drumnadrochit, IV63 6TL (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Alex Joss, 8 Green Drive, Inverness, IV2 4EX (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
First published:
1995. (Photocopied version 1983-94; also Caithness Bird Report 1983-94, photocopied version 1976-82.)
Back issues:
2021, 2020 and 2019 copies are all £10 (plus £2.50 P&P). All previous copies are free apart from £3 P&P per copy. Please contact Carol Miller (as above).
Highland Bird Report Gazetteer
SOC Highland branch has produced a gazetteer, listing almost 2800 site names referred to in the Highland Bird Report and their grid references. Download the 2020 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
