Wildlife and bird watching in Lothian the Scottish Borders
Puffins at the Scottish Seabird Centre - one of the best and most accessible places to see wildlife in Scotland.Apart from tens of thousands of seabirds, it is also a good place to spot dolphins, whales and seals.
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Recent Lothian & Borders news
- Scotland’s farmers praised for supporting wildlife this winter
- Ospreys are a Borders success story
- Worst year on record for bird poisoning in Scotland – 2009
- Osprey update 2010 - Remarkable Loch of Lowes bird lays 58th egg!
- Bird tables spread squirrel pox
- Help monitor whales and dolphins of England’s north-east coast
- Osprey update 2010 - First ospreys arrive back in the UK
- Red squirrel project success in Scotland
- Isle of May seabird chick numbers up – But total populations decline
- Where do British puffins go in the winter?
- New salt marsh to be created at Grangemouth
- Grey squirrel control to be stepped up to boost red squirrels
More Lothian & Borders news
- Osprey update - Final 2009.
- 1200 + incidents of bird-crime reported in 2008 – Home office ignores
- Tweed Valley osprey chick falls from nest
- Nesting herons, nuthatches, jackdaws, swallows and ospreys on CCTV in Scotland
- The Scottish Marine Wildlife Watching Code
- 100,000 hectares to be designated as red squirrel refuges
- Forth islands cleared of invasive plant that is forcing puffins out
- A record 18 osprey chicks fledged in the Scottish borders in 2008
- Infanticide is rife and growing problem in guillemot colony
- Sea eagle turns up on the Isle of May
- Sea-bird chick survival rate reduced by moth parasites
- Minke whale rescued from Firth of Forth
- UK’s largest puffin colony numbers down by 30%
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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