Some Ornithological Chat with Amy Challis and Andrew Stevenson

Mark talks to Amy Challis and Andrew Stevenson about the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme, which has been keeping tabs on Scotland’s Raptors for the last 20 years. To celebrate their 20th Birthday, SRMS released their first population trends for Scotland’s raptors via both a report and a brilliant interactive web tool. Also, Amy tells us how she feels about Birds of Paradise and Andrew tells us about his Hebridean birding dream (a Willet) and his Hebridean birding reality (a Snowy Owl/white bucket).

SRMS - https://raptormonitoring.org/srms-online

Trends report - https://raptormonitoring.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SRMS-Trends-2009-2018-Trends-Summary.pdf

Search trends interactively - https://raptormonitoring.org/trends/explore-trends-interactively

SOC

DIGITAL MEMBERSHIP - https://www.the-soc.org.uk/support-us/join-us

SOC website - https://www.the-soc.org.uk/

Branches – what’s going on near you? https://www.the-soc.org.uk/local-branches

What’s coming up at Waterston house? https://www.the-soc.org.uk/about-us/art-gallery

Online Scottish Bird Report - https://www.the-soc.org.uk/about-us/online-scottish-bird-report

Where to watch birds in Scotland app - https://www.the-soc.org.uk/about-us/app

Scottish Birds - https://www.the-soc.org.uk/about-us/scottish-birds-soc-s-journal

Intro – displaying Teals, male chimes and whistles and female rather high pitched quacks. Outro – Robin.

Credits

Many thanks to Xeno Canto for allowing access to the library of recordings, and in particular, the following recorders whose hawk and owl calls were used.

Lars Edinius – Sparrowhawk - https://xeno-canto.org/741418

Lars Edinius – Northern Goshawk - https://xeno-canto.org/665202

Jarek Matusiak – Northern Goshawk - https://xeno-canto.org/591228

Irish Wildlife Sounds – Sparrowhawk - https://xeno-canto.org/740850

Andrej Binz – Tawny Owl - https://xeno-canto.org/782767

Clive Davies – Long-eared Owl - https://xeno-canto.org/713370

Xeno-canto - https://xeno-canto.org/

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