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winner of a Shetland Environment Award 2004

Non-Java links Birds * Sea Mammals * Insects * Others

Shetland Bird Club AGM

followed by an illustrated talk by Rob Fray on “Assam and Arunachal Pradesh”.

Saturday 13^th February 2010 at 7.30 pm

Room 16, Islesburgh Community Centre, Lerwick

All welcome, admission free

Shetland Bird Report 2009 Work is already progressing well on the next Shetland Bird Report but your assistance would be appreciated in several areas:

records - if you have not sent in records for 2009 already then please send them asap to the County Recorder (Mark Chapman - address below). Records in Excel are preferred but we will accept records in any format.

compiling - anyone interested in compiling species accounts should contact the editor (Mike Pennington - you can use this website e-mail if necessary). A reasonable knowledge of Shetland birds and geography and using Excel is all that is needed

photos - if you have photos you would like to be considered for the report then please send them to to the editor, by e-mail (if there are a few) or on CD if there are more (not too many please!)

 

Shetland Bird Report 2008 The new report is now available, with a full colour systematic list and literally dozens of colour photos. If you saw any of these birds you need this report. Shetland Bird Club members should already have copies. The 2007 report costs £10 inc. p&p, and now includes a complementary membership of the Shetland Bird Club for a year!

If you would like further details on membership, or back copies of the report, then contact the Treasurer & Membership Secretary: Russ Haywood Lamnaberg, Wester Quarff, Shetland ZE2 9EZ. Tel: (01950) 477419.

For a review of the 2008 report, see this article on BirdGuides.

County Recorder Mark Chapman, 55 Leaside, Firth, Mossbank, Shetland ZE2 9TF. Tel: 01806 242401. e-mail msc.1@btinternet.com

Simon King's Shetland Diaries, showing Shetland's wildlife throughout the seasons, will be on BBC2 at 8.00 pm, as follows:

Programme 1 - Thursday 4th February 2010
Programme 2 - Thursday 11th February 2010
Programme 3 - Thursday 18th February 2010

Breeding Atlas 2007-11 Work on the third season of winter fieldwork began in November. The map on the left shows the percentage of species found in each 10 km square so far (based on the previous survey), with red being 90% or more and white being less than 50%. The map on the right shows tetrads which have been surveyed by Timed Tetrad Visits in winter (other tetrads may have records submitted from untimed visits).

If you can help fill the gaps visit the Bird Atlas website or contact Dave Okill.

 

Shetland Bird Club Code of Conduct  Please help to keep Shetland a special place to go birding by following the Bird Club's code of conduct.  Code of Conduct in printable 3-fold leaflet (click here for a pdf).

 

 

Fair Isle Bird Observatory Appeal

Work on the new observatory is progressing, and the old obs has now been demolished! The plans for the new obs are above and photos of the demolition are here.

FIBOT  still requires around £200,000 to complete the funding package, but is confident that, with the help of Friends of Fair Isle, other visitors and private funding sources, they can raise this during the coming year. So do please keep on donating – no matter how small an amount, it all adds up!

To find out more click here.

 

Submitting Photos This website is run on a voluntary basis and so there are limits on both time and server space. Therefore, we are not in a position to use all photos submitted. The following guidelines are intended to help contributors decide what photos to send and how to send them:

• it would be greatly appreciated if all photos are resized first, preferably to a maximum of 800 pixels on the longest dimension.
• as contributors often add website links to their own photographs, we will no longer provide links to external websites on photographers' names.
• we will normally only use two photos of commoner species.
• if your picture is a 'record shot', please consider whether it adds anything to the website.
• 'record shots' of rarities are always welcome, but will normally only be used if there are no better photos.
• we reserve the right not to use photos taken at or near the nest if they involve 'Schedule 1' birds, or those that are scarce breeders in Shetland, as we do not wish to encourage disturbance to breeding birds (note that some species require licences for such photography).

 

LINKS

weather 

Magic Seaweed * Met Office Pressure Charts * Met Office Shipping Forecast * Northern Isles Weather  * WeatherOnline

 

photos and artists with Shetland connections

aardfoto * David Gifford * Hugh Harrop *  Michael McKee * Lee Mott * Rebecca Nason * Bobby Tulloch * Austin Taylor * Howard Towll * Wildfocus

blogs with Shetland connections

A Tale of 2 Halves * Bitter Bonxie * FIBO Warden's Diary * Lee Mott Photography * Of Pies and Birds * Rob Fray's Shetland Birding Blog * Shetland Misfit * Shetland Otter Watching

wildlife tours, guides and boat trips in Shetland

Cycharters * Mousa Boat Trips * Seabirds-and-Seals *  Shetland Nature * Shetland Otters * Shetland Photography Holidays * Shetland Wildlife * Visit Shetland

other Shetland sites

Braer * Fair Isle * Fair Isle Bird Observatory * Foula Heritage * Found on Foula * Shetland inter-island ferries * Tide Prediction for Shetland

 

birds 

Birdforum * Birdguides * BBRC * BOU * BTO * Fatbirder * Isles of Scilly Bird Group * Punkbirder * Rare Bird Alert * RSPB * SOC * Surfbirds * Western Isles Wildlife  

European birding (these are updated fairly regularly)  

Azores * Dutch Birding * Faroe Nature * Fugler Net (Norway) * Icelandic Birding Pages * Irish Rare Birds Committee * Netfugl (Denmark) including Faroese sightings

world birding

African Bird Club * Internet Bird Collection (videos) * IOC World Birdnames *  Neotropical Bird Club * Oriental Bird Club

 

others 

North Atlantic Killer Whales ID project * UK Moths

Please note that we do not do reciprocal links. The links on this page are selected to expand on the current content of these pages. You are, of course, free to link to this page without asking, as this is the sort of thing the internet was designed for.

PUBLICATIONS

 

SHETLAND LICHENS This book by Kery and Claire Dalby has been published by Shetland Amenity Trust. Click here for further details.

 

 

SHETLAND SEA MAMMAL REPORT 2004 If you'd like a copy contact Hugh Harrop for further information. Back issues are available. For more details download a order form in pdf format or check the SSMG reports page.

 

BIRDS OF SHETLAND Read reviews of Shetland's most recent avifauna.

 

RARE PLANTS OF SHETLAND A review of Shetland's rarest plants.

 

 

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