Scotland’s Taiga Bean Geese
The evocative calling of geese crossing autumn skies encourages birders and non-birders alike to gaze upward. Some will ponder on...
A birder’s guide to surviving Disneyworld
The rain battering against the window, the quieter streets now the schools are back and the Hawaiian...
Motus Wildlife Tracking System
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System, first established in North America in 2012, is a collaborative system developed to promote a global network...
Bird Camp 2024
In the first weekend of June SOC and BTO Scotland welcomed 14 amazing participants to our base...
Lek It Be - Protecting our Capercaillie
There are only 532 Capercaillie left in the UK. That's half the number of birds we had...
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...
