Wildife and Bird Watching in Dumfries and Galloway
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Recent Dumfries and Galloway news
- Scotland’s farmers praised for supporting wildlife this winter
- Record-breaking numbers of pink-footed geese on Solway Firth
- 20 Feral beavers to be trapped in Scotland
- Great time to see starling 'swarms'
- Geese flocking to Scotland in record numbers
- Red kites boost for Scottish business
- Scottish first as Northern Parula spotted on Tiree and glossy ibis in Dumfries
- Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 2009
- Wildlife crime results in £10,000 fine for coal mining company
- Two colonies of world’s oldest living species found in Scotland
- Scottish sea fishing festival results
- Worst year on record for bird poisoning in Scotland – 2009
- Osprey update 2010 - Remarkable Loch of Lowes bird lays 58th egg!
- RSPB Scotland appeals for members' help to purchase 150 acres of saltmarsh on the Solway Firth
- Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UK
More Dumfries and Galloway news
- Red squirrel project success in Scotland
- 15th Dumfries Red kite poisoned
- Red squirrel strongholds to be launched in Scotland
- 2009 – Excellent year for wildlife tourism in Scotland
- Unusual fly found in Scotland for the first time
- Scotland Red kites number reach highest level for 150 years
- Osprey update - Final 2009.
- Watch the wildlife at Turnberry
- First osprey chick in living memory for Dumfriesshire - Caerlaverock
- 200 near-extinct tadpole shrimps hatch out at WWT Caerlaverock
- 100,000 hectares to be designated as red squirrel refuges
- Sea eagle in Dumfriesshire
- Grouse and Hen harriers living in harmony on Langholm Moor
- Amazing week long crossing of Greenland icecap by lone white-fronted goose
- New bird hide at Carlingwark Loch
Birdcrime still on the rise in the UK – 384 reported incidents in 20092009 was another shocking year for the persecution of birds of prey with incidents of shooting, trapping and poisoning, according to the RSPB's 20th annual Birdcrime report.
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Worst year on record for bird poisoning in Scotland – 20092009 marked the highest number of confirmed poisoning incidents discovered in a single year in Scotland in the past two decades, according to an annual report by RSPB Scotland.
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Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UKThe bird thought to be oldest breeding female of its kind ever recorded in the UK returned for the 20th consecutive year to the Loch of the Lowes wildlife reserve, astonishing wildlife experts.
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Spoonbills breed in Scotland for the first timeA pair of spoonbills have successfully bred for the first time in Scotland and only the second time in the UK. An adult pair have raised and fledged three chicks on Kirkcudbright Bay in Dumfries and Galloway.
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