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15 January 2024

Derek Robertson is a professional wildlife artist, a long-term member of the SOC, and an active ringer with the Tay...

11 December 2023

The Club’s 2023 annual get-together took place on the weekend of 24-26 November at the Atholl Palace Hotel in...


25 October 2023

This year, I published a monograph, The Purple Sandpiper, based partly on studies and surveys carried out jointly by...

28 September 2023

As a long-standing SOC and Central Scotland Raptor Study Group (SRSG) member, I monitor Peregrine sites in west...

02 August 2023

Buoyed by the success of the first ever Scottish Bird Camp, in May 2022, SOC and BTO were excited to run Bird Camp...

17 July 2023

It is all too rare that an entirely new space for birds and nature is created but at the beginning of June, the new...

26 June 2023

How the season was going to unfold this year following the avian flu outbreak was unknown but, right on time, the...

22 May 2023

During March, three groups of children from primary schools in central Edinburgh visited the SOC headquarters as part...

24 April 2023

Lisa Hooper was recently asked by the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA), of which she is a member, to write an...

06 March 2023

The Woodcock is one of our most enigmatic waders. Our only wader that nests in woodland, Scotland’s breeding Woodcock...

02 January 2023

A language holds its own traditions and treasures. In Scottish Gaelic, the word “dualchas” encompasses the intimate...

06 December 2022
In conversation with Tim Birkhead and Bernie Zonfrillo - Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to

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