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Category Archives: Ecology
Protecting Orkney’s special wildlife: The Orkney Native Wildlife Project
Today, we feature a guest blog from the Orkney Native Wildlife Project team. The project staff are working hard to safeguard the unique and internationally important native wildlife of Orkney by tackling the threat it faces from an invasive non-native … Continue reading
Monitoring the not-so-common Common Crane in North East Scotland
Today, we welcome back guest blogger and ace photographer Ron Macdonald, who takes us on an amazing visual and auditory journey following common cranes in North East Scotland, as he volunteers for RSPB to help monitor and understand this recovering … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Birds, citizen science, Ecology, photography, Uncategorized
Tagged biodiversity, birds, common crane, nature, NatureScot, North East Scotland, RSPB Scotland
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Weaving a tapes-tree – The Loch Lomond Woodlands Project
To celebrate the International Day of Forests, our graduate placement Heather Reilly is highlighting some of our most important wooded areas, and the data mapping project which aims to better understand and illustrate them, in today’s blog. On the bonny … Continue reading
Celebrating International Day of Girls & Women in Science
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science – a day declared by the UN to bring attention to the fact that less than 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women. Biases and gender stereotypes are still steering … Continue reading
Beavers on the move – Part One
This is the first of a two-part blog written by Dr Roisin Campbell-Palmer, who was just awarded the Nature of Scotland Conservation Science Award for her long-term work with beavers in Scotland. Roisin previously worked for RZSS overseeing the Scottish … Continue reading
Coigach and Assynt’s secret hazel woodlands
We sometimes think of Assynt, in the north west of Scotland, as a spectacular but stark place of rock, heath and bog. But here and there are plenty of trees – marvellous woodlands, those on better soils often dominated by … Continue reading
The salmon run: an autumn ending to a long journey
Each year, Atlantic salmon make an incredible journey back from the ocean to return to their breeding grounds. To get there, this mighty fish propels itself, like a dart, up and over the fast-flowing waters of some of our finest … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Ecology, Marine, NatureScot, Year of Coasts and Waters, Year of Coasts and Waters 2020
Tagged #fish, #rivers, #salmon, #salmonrun, #scotland, #YCCW
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Moths on the move
Mike Thornton, SNH Operations Officer for the Forth Area, describes how integral moths are to Scotland’s biodiversity, and why it’s crucial to know how their populations are changing. I lift the egg cartons out of the moth trap, slowly revealing … Continue reading
Posted in Argyll National Nature Reserves, biodiversity, citizen science, climate change, conservation, Ecology, moth, science, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, survey, Volunteering
Tagged biodiversity, citizen science, climate change, insects, moths, NatureScot, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH
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Lockdown on nature? Not really
In our post today Biodiversity Officer, Iain Macdonald, shares his thoughts on Covid-19 and nature, following a pensive lockdown stroll around town… Where have the cars, the planes, the trains and the people all gone? I don’t know about you, … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, Ecology, Uncategorized, urban nature
Tagged biodiversity, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Nairn, nature, NatureScot, Scotland, Scottish, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, urban nature, Wildlife
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Ardnamurchan’s unique day-flying moth
Each year in early summer, volunteers from various parts of Scotland travel west to survey a rare, striking and elusive day-flying moth – the New Forest burnet, at the only site it occurs in the UK. Since becoming extinct in … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, citizen science, climate change, conservation, Ecology, Flowers, Insects, Land management, moth, Projects, Protected Areas, Research, Scotland's Protected Places, Scottish Natural Heritage, SNH, Species Action Framework, SSSI, Uncategorized, wildlife management, woodlands
Tagged Ardnamurchan, biodiversity, endemic, endenism, moths, NatureScot, New Forest burnet moth, Protected Areas, ScotNature, Scottish Natural Heritage, scottish nature, SNH, SSSI
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