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Argyll

This page lists books about birds and birdwatching in Argyll. Argyll includes a number of the islands of the Inner Hebrides including Mull, Islay and Jura. It also includes the Kintyre peninsula.

The books are arranged by publication date with the most recent at the top of the page.


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The Birds of Colonsay and Oronsay: An Island Avifauna and Bird Atlas

David C. Jardine

2017

"The Birds of Colonsay and Oronsay provides an up to date account of the avifauna of these two small Hebridean islands, incorporating information from archaeological excavations of the Mesolithic sites on Oronsay, an atlas of the breeding and wintering birds and details of a the wide range of migrants which have occurred. It is in full colour with 165 distribution maps, 100 graphs depicting population trends and 174 photographs."

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The Birds of Bute: A Bird Atlas and Local Avifauna

Ronald W. Forrester, Ian Hopkins, Doug Menzies

Buteshire Natural History Society

2012

"he Birds of Bute documents data gathered on Bute as part of a national survey, and was seen as an opportunity to update previous studies published on Bute's birds. It is the first complete record of birdlife on Bute since McWilliam's The Birds of the Island of Bute published in 1927. Two hundred maps show the current distribution of bird species on Bute, but this is more than just an atlas; it is a local avifauna, providing in-depth historical and current information for all species recorded. More than 170 photographs illustrate The Birds of Bute.

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Birdwatching on Mull and Iona: A Pocket Guide With Maps

David Sexton

Illustrations: Philip Snow

Brown and Whittaker Publishing

2010

"This guide will take you to the best birdwatching places on Mull and Iona, and the surrounding waters. You will know where to find the famous white-tailed sea eagles and learn how to tell the difference between an eagle and a buzzard.

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Analysis of Islay goose datasets to determine the effects of scaring and management factors on goose distributions: Phase II

David Douglas, Graham Austin, Chris Wernham and Mark Rehfisch

BTO Research Report 529

British Trust for Ornithology

2009

"BTO Scotland has been contracted by the Scottish Executive Environmental and Rural Affairs Department (now Scottish Government: Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate) to conduct an analysis of datasets, collected between the winter seasons of 1992/93 a nd 2006/07, on wintering Greenland White- fronted Goose (Anser albifrons flavirostris) and Greenland Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) populations on Islay, Argyll. A programme of scaring (shooting and non-shooting scaring devices) has been in operation on the island since 2000/01 as part of the Islay Goose Management Scheme, with the aim of reducing the extent of agricultural damage by geese on Islay. The main aspect of this current project is to investigate whether the datasets collected within this scheme can be used to determine the effectiveness of the various scaring techniques."

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Birds of Argyll

Argyll Bird Club

2007

"The history, status and distribution of birds in Argyll. The core of the book is made up of individual accounts describing the status of the 327 bird species recorded in Argyll to 2006."

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Birds of Tiree and Coll

John Bowler and Janet Hunter

2007

"This book provides an up-to-date and user-friendly account of all 271 bird species recorded on the wildlife-rich islands of Coll and Tiree in the Scottish Inner Hebrides."

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The Birds of Islay: A Celebration in Photographs

Gordon Langsbury and M. A. Ogilvie

Lochindaal Press

2006

"A book of colour photographs of birds found on the Hebridean Island, along with text describing when and where they can be seen."

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Light and Flight: A Hebridean Wildlife and Landscape Sketchbook

Philip Snow

Brown and Whittaker Publishing

2006

"From the cliffs of the Butt of Lewis to the granite outpost of Ailsa Craig, Philip Snow has captured in his stunning watercolours the whole coastline of the Hebrides. His studies of birds are the product of a lifetime of observation in the field. Most of his pictures come with field notes and anecdotes that transport the reader to the world of soaring eagles and rasping corncrakes. No other book has presented the rich wildlife of the islands so intimately and with such skill."

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The Wildlife of Mull and How to Find It

Jay Butler and Anna Levin

Brown and Whittaker Publishing

2003

"A guide to how, where and when to see the wildlife on the island of Mull, whether you are exploring by car or on foot."

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Birds In Kintyre

Eddie Maguire

Peninsula Wildlife

2003

"A discursive site-by-site guide to birds plus an annotated checklist."

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The Birds Of Islay: Including when and where to find them and lists of other fauna and flora

Malcolm Ogilvie

Lochindaal Press

3rd edition

2003

"Third, enlarged and fully revised, edition of this popular guide, which first appeared in 1992. Expanded to 80 pages, it contains a complete systematic list of all 277 species and five identifiable subspecies seen on the island to the end of 2002. Status information for each species includes the most important areas and times of year, as well as an indication of numbers present, whether breeding, passage or wintering. Introductory chapters describe the different habitats on the island together with the top ten bird-watching locations. As a new feature, the booklet includes checklists of mammals, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, dragonflies and wild flowers."

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The Birds of Colonsay and Oronsay

David C. Jardine

Colonsay Bookshop

2nd edition

2002

Combines a guide to birdwatching sites with an annotated checklists for the islands.

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Birds In Kintyre: Areas of Special Ornithological Importance

Eddie Maguire

Peninsula Wildlife

1996

75 pages.

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The Birds Of Islay: Including when and where to find them

Malcolm Ogilvie

Lochindaal Press

2nd edition

1994

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Birds of Mid-Argyll

Mike Madders, Philip Snow and Julia Welstead

Saker Press

1992

A guide to birdwatching sites in mainland mid-Argyll.

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Birds of Mull

Mike Madders and Philip Snow

Saker Press

1990

A guide to the best birdwatching sites plus a full systematic list.

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Birds Of Islay

Richard E. Elliott

Christopher Helm

1989

"Islay is the most southerly island of the Hebrides lying 24 kilometres from Kintyre on mainland Britain, across the approaches to the Sound of Jura. It has an area of 615 square kilometres. For this book, the author presents a collation of facts about the birds and some ways in which they interact with human aspirations. The main part of this book is based on the ornithological records accumulated by C.Gordon Booth from 1968 to 1985. Accounts of the occurrence of both regular and vagrant birds seen here together with migration, the history of habitats and the problems of conservation in association with the island community are also discussed."

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The Birds of Mid-Argyll, Kintyre & Cowal

Chris McLaren & George Murray

Droineach Press

1985

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Birds in Islay

C. Gordon Booth

Argyll Publications

1975

Annotated checklist of species recorded on the island with some b/w photograps.

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A Vertebrate Fauna Of Argyll And The Inner Hebrides

J.A. Harvie-Brown and T.E. Buckley

David Douglas, Edinburgh

1892

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Birds of Iona and Mull: 1852-70

Henry Davenport Graham

Editor: J.A. Harvie-Brown

David Douglas, Edinburgh

1890

Contents:

  • Preface by J.A. Harvie-Brown
  • Original preface by Mr Robert Gray
  • Memoir of the author
  • Letters from H.D. Graham to Robert Gray, Secretary of the Glasgow Natural History Society
  • Extract from Diaries, including a "Walk Through Glemnore in Mull"
  • Notes from the Minute-Books of the Natural History Society of Glasgow
  • The Birds Of Iona And Mull
  • Appendix: Place names on Iona
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The Birds Of The West Of Scotland Including The Outer Hebrides

Robert Gray

Illustrations: W. Sinclair and others

Thomas Murray & Son, Glasgow

1871

From the preface:

"Since the publication of the respective works of Sir William Jardine, Professor Macgillivray, and Mr Selby, nothing in a collected form on the Birds of Scotland has been brought under the notice of ornithologists. Many useful and interesting papers have no doubt appeared through various channels, but even the best of these have been restricted within comparatively narrow limits, so that a field, such as that chosen for the title of this volume, may be said to have been hitherto almost unoccupied. It is now upwards of twenty years since I formed the design of collecting materials for such a work, and during that interval it may safely be said that no exertions have been spared to make these materials serve a useful purpose. I have personally visited nearly every locality mentioned, for the express object of acquiring reliable information, and have made myself practically familiar with the birds whose names are catalogued in these pages. Having, besides, repeatedly traversed the entire coast line of Scotland, as well as rambled over the greater portion of the inland counties and their woodland and moorland solitudes, unusual facilities have been afforded me of renewing my observations on the habits of species, and on the various phases of bird life seen from observatories so varied as our country presents. No part of Great Britain, indeed, is more inviting to the ornithologist than the western mainland of Scotland and its island dependencies their mountains and rugged headlands being still frequented by eagles and lordly peregrines; their inland waters and lone sea shores visited by the stately swan; and their peaceful glens and viii PREFACE. brawling rivers enlivened by the presence of many interesting birds long since driven from the meres and sunburnt plains of the south."
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Last updated September 2011