V 14 No.4 - The Scottish Ornithologists' Club

218 Items of Scottish Interest
S8 14 (4)
Bird Reports
Arran Bird Report 1986. (12 pp) Margaret
Dunn (ed) 1987. ·£1.00.
Ayrshire Bird Report 1986. (48 pp) Angus Hogg
(ed) 1987. ·£2.00 Includes a Rook survey.
Caithness Bird Report 1986. (48 pp) S.A.M.
Manson (ed) 1987. ·£3.00. Includes a report
on the Greenland White-fronled Geese in
Caithness, and lists of birds seen on visits to
Stroma and to the Pentland Skerries.
Islay Bird and Natural History Report 1986.
(18 pp) Malcolm Ogilvie (ed) 1987. This is
the first such report for Islay. It includes
monthly counts of wildfowl, waders and gulls
for Lochs Gruinart and Indaal. ·£1 .00.
Birds in Midlothian, West Lothian and Edinburgh
Districts 1986. (37 pp) 1987. Ian Andrews
(ed) 1987. Unpublished report which
includes all the Forth Islands except the Isle
of May.
Moray and Nairn Bird Report 1986. (37 pp)
Martin Cook (ed) 1987. • 75p.
Orkney Bird Report 1986. (77 pp) 1987 Chris
Booth & Mildred Cuthbert (ed5) 1987. Includes
a systematic list and short reports on
Shelduck in Orkney, Long-eared Owl pellets,
and Contamination of birds with Fulmar Oil.
·£2.00.
Shetland Bird Report 1986. (62 pp) P.M.
Ellis (ed) 1987. ·c. £3 .50. Includes reports on
breeding Shelduck and on a survey of Arc-
tic Skuas and Great Skuas in Shetland. The
startling conclusion is that Shetland holds
56070 of the northern hemisphere population
of Great Skuas, and 43% of Arctic Skuas.
Fair Isle Bird Observatory Report 1986. (76 pp)
Nick Riddiford (ed) 1987. ·£2.50. This is
more than just a bird report. It describes the
whole life of the island, and records two
noteworthy happenings, the award to the
island of the Council of Europe's Diploma,
and the opening of the George Waterston
Memorial Centre on the island. There is a
22-page systematic list.
Lothian Bird Report 1985. (117 pp) M.R. Leven
(ed) 1987. ·£3.50. Includes a 64-page
systematic list, and reports on Grey Heron
and Mute Swan censuses, on a Wood
Warbler survey, and several short notes.
Birds in Midlothian, West Lothian and Edinburgh
Districts 1985. (51 pp) lan Andrews
(ed) 1987. Unpublished report which includes
all the Forth Islands except the Isle
of May.
Forth Area Bird Report 1984. (11 pp) C.l.
Henty 1987. In The Forth Naturalist and
Historian 9: 39-49. ·£3.00. Covers
Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire and
southwest Perthshire. Reports for 1985 and
1986 will be in vol. 10 (in press).
W.G. Harper
Long-tailed Skua.
A. Hogg