Perth and Kinross District
George Dunbar, email, tel 07765 183697
We now prefer to receive Perth & Kinross bird records via BirdTrack , the online recording system operated by the BTO, the RSPB, BirdWatch Ireland and the SOC. All you need to do to get started is sign up as a BirdTrack user and register the sites where you birdwatch.
If you use BirdTrack to record your sightings, it will create a personal ‘diary’ you can view online. Your records will automatically be made available for the production of the Perth & Kinross Bird Report (provided you permit the local recorder to access them), for wider bird conservation issues, and to track migration and distribution patterns.
We do however continue to accept records sent directly to the local recorder at the address above. Various formats can be used:
– A Microsoft Works or Excel spreadsheet
– A Word document or equivalent. Records must be in a table format, with a column for each field.
– As a last resort, on paper – but only if less than one hundred records, due to the time required to transfer to computer.
In all cases the important thing is to include the following information: species name, count (just digits), age/sex etc, locality, date (dd/mm/yyyy), comments.
Scott Paterson (email)
The Perth & Kinross Bird Report was last published in 2006
Scott Paterson (as above)
A PDF version of the Perth & Kinross Bird Reports issues 1998 to 2006, are available from Scott Paterson (as above).
Mike Bell, Keith Brockie, David Douglas and Ken Shaw
Perth and Kinross Description Species List 2023
Bewick’s Swan
Bean Goose (Taiga & Tundra)
White-fronted Goose
Brent Goose
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Garganey
Red-crested Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
Eider
Common Scoter
Velvet Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Smew
Capercaillie
Great Northern Diver
Black-necked Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Storm Petrel
Leach’s Petrel
Gannet
Shag
Bittern
Great White Egret
Rough-legged Buzzard
Honey Buzzard
Goshawk
Hobby
Spotted Crake
Corncrake
Crane
Avocet
Little Ringed Plover
American Golden Plover
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Temminck’s Stint
Little Stint
Grey Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
All Skuas
Sabine’s Gull
Glaucous Gull
Iceland Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
All auks
Turtle Dove
Little Owl
Nightjar
Bee-eater
Hoopoe
Wryneck
Woodlark
Shorelark
Richard’s Pipit
Water Pipit
Bluethroat
Black Redstart
Barred Warbler
Reed Warbler (away from Tay Reedbeds)
Icterine Warbler
‘Siberian’ Chiffchaff
Yellow-browed Warbler
Pallas’s Warbler
Firecrest
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Crested Tit
Marsh Tit
Willow Tit
Bearded Tit (away from Tay Reedbeds)
Great Grey Shrike
Red-backed Shrike
Chough
Hooded Crow
Rose-coloured Starling
Golden Oriole
Mealy Redpoll
Hawfinch
Common Rosefinch
Snow Bunting
Lapland Bunting
Corn Bunting
And any other species, not considered by the BBRC or SBRC, which is very rare or scarce in Perth & Kinross.
Scottish rarities (i.e. those in capitals on the SBRC List) should also be sent to the Recorder, who will forward them to SBRC.
During the fieldwork for BirdAtlas 2007-11, data for the old county of Kinross were gathered from all of its 71 tetrads. The data are in the process of being mapped, eventually to be uploaded on to a CD. Contact Norman Elkins for details.
SOC brings together like-minded individuals with a passion for birds, nature and conservation through a programme of talks, outings, conferences and via the Club’s quarterly journal, Scottish Birds.
